Regarding Nursing Legislation
- 28 July 1960
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 263 (4) , 204
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196007282630416
Abstract
IN 1955 the Massachusetts State Nurses Association began a concerted drive to effect the passage of a mandatory licensing law and legislation designed to merge the Board of Registration in Nursing and the Approving Authority for Schools for Nurses and in Medicine, ex officio.The nurses' efforts to define professional nursing and practical nursing and to make it unlawful for anyone to practice professional nursing who is not a registered nurse or to practice or attempt to practice practical nursing who is not registered as a licensed practical nurse were successful in 1957 with the signing of a nurses' . . .Keywords
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