MAJOR
NURSING
PRACTICE
ISSUES
1. Promotion of the registered nurse
as the direct-care provider in all
healthcare settings.
2. Patient advocacy and the
nursing process.
3. Empowerment of the PPCs
(Professional Performance
Committees).
4. Encroachment into nursing practice
by other licensed and unlicensed
health caregivers.
5. External forces promoting
reallocation of nursing functions.
6. Technology and the deskilling of
the profession.
7. Deregulation through movement
of services from inpatient to
outpatient and home settings.
8. Expanded nursing practice issues.
9. Development and monitoring of
staffing ratio language.
10. Fragmentation of RN title
and work.
11. Occupational health hazards
for nurses and violence in
the workplace.
