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Illinois Getting Ready to Change its Nursing law

<meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 2.0 (Linux)" /><meta name="CREATED" content="20070216;7504800" /><meta name="CHANGED" content="16010101;0" /> <style type="text/css"> </style>The Illinois legislators are getting ready to change <strong>The Illinois Nursing</strong> <strong>and Advanced Practice Nursing Act</strong> to keep up with the ever changing realities of our field.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">The two most important changes are:</p> <ol> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Only nurses would be allowed to give out medications to patients.</p> </li> </ol> <ol start="2"> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Advanced Practice Nurses, such as nurse practitioners, will be allowed to work without the direct supervision of a doctor.</p> </li> </ol> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">To read more about these important changes that will affect all current and prospective nurses working in Illinois <a href="http://www.khqa.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=27694"><strong>please click this</strong></a></p> <p class="postmetadata alt"> <small> This entry was posted on Friday, February 16th, 2007 at 8:55 am and is filed under <a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?cat=4" title="View all posts in Facts & Figures" rel="category tag">Facts & Figures</a>, <a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?cat=8" title="View all posts in USA" rel="category tag">USA</a>. You can follow any responses to this entry through the <a href='http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?feed=rss2&p=85'>RSS 2.0</a> feed. You can <a href="#respond">leave a response</a>, or <a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/wp-trackback.php?p=85" rel="trackback">trackback</a> from your own site. </small> </p> </div> </div>   <h3 id="respond">Leave a Reply</h3> <form action="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform"> <p><input type="text" name="author" id="author" value="" size="22" tabindex="1" /> <label for="author"><small>Name (required)</small></label></p> <p><input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="" size="22" tabindex="2" /> <label for="email"><small>Mail (will not be published) (required)</small></label></p> <p><input type="text" name="url" id="url" value="" size="22" tabindex="3" /> <label for="url"><small>Website</small></label></p>  <p><textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="100%" rows="10" tabindex="4"></textarea></p> <p><input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit" tabindex="5" value="Submit Comment" /> <input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="85" /> </p> </form> </div> <hr /> <div id="footer">  <p> Sagent Healthstaff Blog is proudly powered by <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> <br /><a href="feed:http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?feed=rss2">Entries (RSS)</a> and <a href="feed:http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?feed=comments-rss2">Comments (RSS)</a>.  </p> </div> </div>  </body> </html>