Time

Eastern Time Zone

12 - 3:15pm

Nursing CE: 3.00

Professional Licensure Essentials: Protecting Your Nursing Livelihood

Learner Objectives

1. List common misperceptions professionals have about licensure and regulation.
2. Define the mission of the nursing board & the purpose of nursing regulation.
3. Discuss common causes of discipline Describe actions to protect your license from investigation and discipline.

Workshop Outline

• Part 1: General Principles of Licensure and Regulation
• Part 2: Ohio Requirements and Disciplinary Case Examples
• Part 3: Open Discussion with Q & A
• Part 4: Discussion of Operation Nightingale

Presenters

• Edith A. Brous, BSN, MS, MPH, JD, RN; 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.

This event is approved for up to 3.00 Nursing CE with the California Board of Nursing.