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Page 8 Ohio Nurse December 2021 ONA’s Policy Footprint First Published in 2016 by Jan Lanier, JD, RN & Tiffany Bukoffsky, MHA, BSN, RN Updated in November 2021 by Tiffany Bukoffsky, MHA, BSN, RN We can all agree that nursing has come a long way since the days of Florence Nightingale. We have not only become a powerful voice as a profession, but are the most trusted profession in the United States year after year. With a powerful voice comes the responsibility to be a strong and engaged advocate. Registered nurses in Ohio have a long-standing tradition of making an impact on legislation in our state and to pave the way for our fellow colleagues now and in the future. The Ohio Nurses Association (ONA) was formed in 1904 “to secure legislation for the advancement of the nursing profession in Ohio”, including legislative campaigns for nursing registration and improved standards for education of professional nurses. One of ONA’s primary accomplishments in our state was the implementation of the Nurse Practice Act on April 27, 1915. This key piece of legislation formed the Nurses’ Examining Committee, now known as the Ohio Board of Nursing. Since then, we have actively engaged in the Ohio policymaking process and have changed the face of nursing in our state. Below is a compilation of ONA’s legislative successes over the last two and a half decades: • Creation of the Nursing Education Assistance Loan Program (1990) • Recognition of advanced practice nurses—nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, certified registered nurse anesthetists, and certified nurse-midwives (1996) • Needle stick safety legislation (1999) • Prescriptive authority for nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, and nurse-midwives, (2000) • Creation of the Nursing Education Grant Program (2003) • Preservation of the role of registered nurses when the creation of alternative providers was proposed by various state agencies (2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2012—ongoing) • Establishment of a no-interest loan through the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation to facilitate the purchase of lift assist equipment (ceiling lifts) in long-term care and acute care facilities. The American Nurses Association provided ONA with an award for advocacy around safe lift devices. (2005)
December 2021 Ohio Nurse Page 9 • When the General Assembly created medication aides for long-term care and assisted living facilities, ONA made certain these individuals would be required to meet stringent education expectations and be governed by the Board of Nursing (2005 & 2007) • Elimination of smoking in public places as part of a coalition with other health care and environmental interest groups (2006) • Establishment of staffing standards in accordance with ANA principles (2008) • Defeated efforts to limit the rights of public employees (including nurses) to bargain collectively (2011) • Authority for nurses in pronouncement of death in certain circumstances (2013) • Enhancement of the penalty for assaulting nurses or other health care workers in hospitals (2013) • Authority for APRNs to hold admission privileges (2013) • Minimized limits on the prescribing of schedule II controlled substances (2014) • Authority for APRNs with prescriptive authority to delegate medication administration to trained individuals in certain settings (2015) • Preservation of an independent Board of Nursing rather than having an umbrella agency take on the regulation of nurses (2017) • An Ohio nursing license plate that provides scholarships for nursing students and grant funding for nurse researchers (2017) • Additional reporting mechanism for staffing plans, where hospitals need to submit plans to the Ohio Department of Health every other year, which must be posted on a public-facing website (2017) • Implementation of a statewide hospital licensing system and additional regulation and inspection requirements (2021) Going forward, ONA will continue to be the leading voice for professional nursing in Ohio. If we could take a glimpse into the future of what professional nursing will look like in our state, it might include some of the following: • Ensure all hospitals are meeting appropriate standards of patient safety through the Ohio Administrative Code and hospital licensing rule-making process • Stronger staffing language that further secures patient safety • Mandatory overtime restrictions • Enhanced and modernized language that allows APRNs to work to their full scope of education, training, and certification • Stronger workplace violence protections NYC STD Prevention Training Center We provide a continuum of education, resources, consultation and technical assistance to health care providers and clinical sites. www.nycptc.org • Free CNE web-based training on clinical sexual health prevention, diagnostic and treatment issues • Free clinical guidance regarding STI cases; no identifying patient data is submitted www.stdccn.org • Clinical guidance tools regarding the 2021 CDC STI treatment guidelines • Virtual and on-site technical assistance regarding quality improvement, clinic implementation and best practices around sexual health provision KEEWAYDIN in Vermont SUMMER CAMP POSITIONS: • RN • LPN If you are a qualified nurse who enjoys working with kids, consider a summer at Songadeewin of Keewaydin for girls or Keewaydin Dunmore for boys on beautiful Lake Dunmore in the heart of the Green Mountains of Vermont. We successfully ran Covid-free camps in 2021. Vaccination required. Keewaydin’s website is www.keewaydin.org. Contact Ellen Flight at (802) 352-9860 or by email at ellen@keewaydin.org
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