Professional Licensure Essentials: Protecting Your Nursing Livelihood
Learner Objectives
- List common misperceptions professionals have about licensure and regulation.
- Define the mission of the nursing board & the purpose of nursing regulation.
- Discuss common causes of discipline Describe actions to protect your license from investigation and discipline.
- Presentation - Brous
Workshop Outline
- Part 1: General Principles of Licensure and Regulation
- Part 2: Requirements and Disciplinary Case Examples
- Part 3: Update on Operation Nightingale
- Part 4: Open Discussion with Q & A
Presenters
Edie Brous, MS, MPH, JD, RN, FAAN; Law Offices of Edith Brous, Esq. PC; East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
Ms.
Brous is a Nurse Attorney in private practice concentrating in
professional licensure representation and nursing advocacy. She has
practiced in major litigation law firms representing nurses at all
levels of practice, physicians, other health care professionals,
hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies. Edie is admitted to practice
before the bars of the state courts of New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania, the Southern and Eastern Districts of the New York Federal
Courts and the United States Supreme Court. She is a member of many bar
associations and nursing organizations and was the 2011 president of
The American Association of Nurse Attorneys. Ms. Brous has an extensive
clinical and managerial background in OR, Emergency and Critical Care
Nursing. In addition to her law degree, she holds master’s degrees in
Public Health and in Critical Care Nursing from Columbia University. She
has been part time faculty at Columbia University, and has held adjunct
faculty positions at several universities teaching legal aspects of
nursing. Ms. Brous has lectured and published extensively on legal
issues for nurses and co-authored the textbook Law and Ethics for
Advanced Practice Nurses. She is the 2008 recipient of the Outstanding
Advocate Award, the 2017 Outstanding Litigation Section Member Award,
and the 2020 Outstanding Solo Practice Section Member Award from The
American Association of Nurse Attorneys.
- Diane J. Knoblauch, JD, MSN, RN; Knoblauch Law Offices; Ohio & Michigan
A
registered nurse since 1976, Ms. Knoblauch earned a diploma, BSN
(1978), and MSN in Primary Care (1980). She was certified as a nurse
practitioner from 1980-2000, with a clinical focus in primary care and
occupational health. While in law school she was an assistant professor
of nursing and was one of the first two faculty members for the nurse
practitioner program at the University of Toledo (OH) College of
Nursing. She has been a practicing attorney since 1994, starting a solo
practice in 2004. Diane has been a TAANA member since 1996 and served as
TAANA President in 2022.
Registration
$50 per person
Nursing CE
This event is approved for up to 3.00 Nursing CE with the California Board of Nursing.
