This page contains an accumulation of guidelines and information, posted throughout the BON website, that are of particular interest to employers of nursing.
NEW! Nursys E-notification Service
- e-Notify is a nurse licensure notification system that informs you of any discipline or licensing alerts received by your employed RNs or LVNs. The system provides real time notifications as it is entered into the Nursys database by boards of nursing. For more information, please visit the Nursys E-notification page here.
Bulletins
- Quarterly Newsletters
A quarterly publication of the Texas Board of Nursing highlighting news articles and information pertinent to Nursing Practice.
Compact
- NLCA Legal Memorandum to Employers
- Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Fact Sheet - Overview of What Nurse Employers Need to Know regarding the licensure compact
- Nurse Licensure Compact - Rules, Law and FAQs
- Nurse Licensure Compact - Video Overview
Contact Information
Discipline
- Disciplinary Action and Imposter Alerts
View nurses acting as imposters or those that have had disciplinary action taken against their licenses. If you would like to receive additional information regarding the disciplinary action which has been imposed, please send your request to the Texas Board of Nursing, Enforcement Division, 333 Guadalupe 3-460, Austin, TX 78701-3944. - How to File a Complaint
Employment Issues
- NLCA Legal Memorandum to Employers
- Floating to Unfamiliar Practice Settings
- Mandatory Overtime/Consecutive Shifts
- Re-entering the Workforce or Transitioning to a New Setting
- Staffing Ratios
Frequently Asked Questions
- Disciplinary - FAQ's
- Education - FAQ's
- Licensing - FAQ's
- Nursing Refresher Courses, Extensive Orientations and Nursing Programs of Study - FAQ's
- Practice - FAQ’s
- Students/Prospective Students - FAQ's
Licensing Information
Nursing Peer Review
- Peer Review - FAQ's
- Nursing Peer Review/Incident-Based and Safe Harbor
With the revisions to the Nursing Peer Review statutes (effective 9/1/2007) and nursing peer review rules (effective 5/11/2008), new forms have been developed to make the process faster and easier for a nurse who believes he/she is being asked to accept an unsafe assignment, engage in conduct beyond the nurse's scope of practice, or engage in unprofessional or illegal conduct.
Nursing Practice and Advanced Practice Information
This section of the BON web site contains information on many topics of concern or confusion for LVNs, RNs, and those who work with licensed nurses in Texas.