NCSBN’s Environmental Scan COVID-19 and Its Impact on Nursing and Regulation

doi:10.1016/s2155-8256(21)00002-8

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“…In Canada, where there is much variability in the approach to health profession regulation across provincial and territorial borders, this has been a significant barrier to equitable access to care during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the USA, where regulation is similarly under state jurisdiction, reforms have facilitated cross-jurisdictional practice during the pandemic, including modifying many in-state licensure requirements for telehealth [ 3 ] and relying on licensure compacts to enable telehealth [ 11 ]. In Canada, despite some regulatory reform around virtual care, variations in licensure requirements and scopes of practice, as well as difficulties ascertaining to which regulator professionals are accountable, have continued to complicate virtual cross-jurisdictional care [ 12 – 14 ].…”

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Protecting the public interest when regulating health professionals providing virtual care: a scoping review protocol

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Background Virtual care is transforming the nature of healthcare, particularly with the accelerated shift to telehealth and virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health profession regulators face intense pressures to safely facilitate this type of healthcare while upholding their legislative mandate to protect the public. Challenges for health profession regulators have included providing practice guidance for virtual care, changing entry-to-practice requirements to include digital competencies, facilitating interjurisdictional virtual care through licensure and liability insurance requirements, and adapting disciplinary procedures. This scoping review will examine the literature on how the public interest is protected when regulating health professionals providing virtual care. Methods This review will follow the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) scoping review methodology. Academic and grey literature will be retrieved from health sciences, social sciences, and legal databases using a comprehensive search strategy underpinned by Population-Concept-Context (PCC) inclusion criteria. Articles published in English since January 2015 will be considered for inclusion. Two reviewers will independently screen titles and abstracts and full-text sources against specific inclusion and exclusion criteria. Discrepancies will be resolved through discussion or by a third reviewer. One research team member will extract relevant data from the selected documents and a second will validate the extractions. Discussion Results will be presented in a descriptive synthesis that highlights implications for regulatory policy and professional practice, as well as study limitations and knowledge gaps that warrant further research. Given the rapid expansion of virtual care provision by regulated health professionals in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, mapping the literature on how the public interest is protected in this rapidly evolving digital health sector may help inform future regulatory reform and innovation. Systematic review registration This protocol is registered with the Open Science Framework (https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/BD2ZX).

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Protecting the public interest when regulating health professionals providing virtual care: a scoping review protocol

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“…Our participants recognized that the public interest went beyond quality of service to include equitable access to services. Critical nursing workforce shortages are only starting to be grappled with ( Bourgeault, 2021 ; NCSBN, 2021 ), and the pandemic has highlighted the public interest role of regulation in workforce responses.…”

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Regulating During Crisis: A Qualitative Comparative Case Study of Nursing Regulatory Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Myles

Wall

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Journal of Nursing Regulation

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“…44 Other changes included state government suspension of continuing education requirements and a reduction of inactivation fees, boosting the number of HCWs eligible to practice, and lowering capacity strain. 45…”

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Mental Health Needs Due to Disasters: Implications for Behavioral Health Workforce Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Public health emergencies impact the well-being of people and communities. Long-term emotional distress is a pervasive and serious consequence of high levels of crisis exposure and low levels of access to mental health care. At highest risk for mental health trauma are historically medically underserved and socially marginalized populations and frontline health care workers (HCWs). Current public health emergency response efforts provide insufficient mental health services for these groups. The ongoing mental health crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic has implications for the resource-strained health care workforce. Public health has an important role in delivering psychosocial care and physical support in tandem with communities. Assessment of US and international public health strategies deployed during past public health emergencies can guide development of population-specific mental health care. The objectives of this topical review were (1) to examine scholarly and other literature on the mental health needs of HCWs and selected US and international policies to address them during the first 2 years of the pandemic and (2) to propose strategies for future responses. We reviewed 316 publications in 10 topic areas. Two-hundred fifty publications were excluded, leaving 66 for this topical review. Findings from our review indicate a need for flexible, tailored mental health outreach for HCWs after disasters. US and global research emphasizes the dearth of institutional mental health support for HCWs and of mental health providers who specialize in helping the health care workforce. Future public health disaster responses must address the mental health needs of HCWs to prevent lasting trauma.

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NCSBN’s Environmental Scan COVID-19 and Its Impact on Nursing and Regulation

Cited by 15 publications

References 40 publications

Protecting the public interest when regulating health professionals providing virtual care: a scoping review protocol

Protecting the public interest when regulating health professionals providing virtual care: a scoping review protocol

Regulating During Crisis: A Qualitative Comparative Case Study of Nursing Regulatory Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Mental Health Needs Due to Disasters: Implications for Behavioral Health Workforce Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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