InstructionDiscussion 1) Do you think your State Board of Nursing should impose limitations on the number of hours that nurses work due to nurse fatigue and the greater chance of making mistakes detrimental to patients? Justify your thoughts with evidence-based research. Do you think you will be more cognizant of professional boundary issues in your practice than you were prior to the course? Justify your thoughts with evidence-based research. Discussion 2 ) In Texas, on his annual renewal form, an RN stated that he got a second DWI 9 months ago. What do you tell him will be the most likely decision as to his license? If you are not in the state of Texas, how would this license renewal situation be handled? An RN with a current New York license has moved to Texas and has applied for a Texas license. On the application, she wrote that she was convicted of Medicaid fraud ($5,230.00) four years ago and will be off of probation in six months. What do you tell her will be the most likely decision as to a Texas license? The BON has become stricter over the past several years concerning criminal convictions and a person’s ability to practice as an RN in Texas. Consult the Board’s “Disciplinary Guidelines for Criminal Conduct,” and consider the above scenarios. In each case, suppose you are an investigator with the Board. Discussion 3 ) documentation Affected by Under Staffing or Misappropriation of Narcotics? What sections of the Nursing Practice Act and the Board Rules address documentation? The nurse cannot make more staff magically appear. What could the nurse have done, under these circumstances, to improve her documentation and perhaps avoid being reported to the Board? (NOTE: In the real case upon which this scenario is built, the nurse did testify that she felt that she had allowed herself to get lulled into the “that’s the way we do it” mentality for that unit!) What do you feel is the best way to handle narcotic wastage if another nurse is not readily available? Suppose you are an investigator with the Board. Open and read the sample background information and notice letter from the Board attached file. Then discuss the above questions