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The Regulatory Process

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The Regulatory Process Program Transcript FEMALE SPEAKER 1: Your work's not done just because a law has been enacted. There may be some things that need to be communicated to people who are going to be implementing that law going forward. Regulations are proposed, developed, drafted, ultimately made permanent at the federal level by the executive branch of government. Because laws are typically written fairly broadly with broad language, and that means that when they're past-- a president signs them into law and they get turfed over to the executive branch for implementation-- sometimes there is no need for regulation because it's pretty clear the intent. But other times there's a lot of regulatory activity that needs to occur to establish the parameters of how that law is going to be implemented. So we need to pay attention to that. Because getting a law passed is just one thing in many cases. Getting the regulations that are implementing that language that act is equally important because it can go lots of different directions. There are typically a lot of options that can be selected. There isn't just one right path. FEMALE SPEAKER 2: The regulatory process is an important one because it guides so much of nursing practice. At the federal level, we think of regulations such as OSHA regulations or Medicare regulations. And those are important to our patients. If we look at what might be important to our nurses, we have to look at the state level at the Board of Nursing. The Board of Nursing, again, is a governmental organization that protects the public. In essence, that's what they're there for. They're to protect the public, not the nurse. So it's important to become part of the Board of Nursing because that's the group that makes the decisions that affects your everyday life. FEMALE SPEAKER 1: There's a lot of reform underway to pull regulations back. So I mention that to say it's not just a matter of keeping your eye on new regulations. It's also to keep an eye on what those regulations that are being removed from the books and what impact, if any, they have on health systems and so on. In some cases, regs are absolutely out of date, and they should be removed. And in other cases, that might be a compromise from our perspective-- a nurse's perspective-- to patients' health if that regulation that is a consumer protection is removed. So regulations merit tracking.

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The Regulatory Process

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The Regulatory Process Additional Content Attribution Trowell‐Harris, I. (n.d.). Various Photographs [Photograph]. Used with permission of Irene Trowell-Harris. Wakefield, M. (n.d.). [Photograph]. Used with permission og Mary Wakefield WAL_NURS6050_NIH-SenatorDanielInouye Official White House Photo by Pete Souza