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The Board of Chiropractic Medicine worked diligently to create an automated reporting system
to track the attendance of licensed chiropractors at a mandatory board meeting within their
first year of licensure. The report was created and will be automatically generated in the
Licensure Enforcement Information Database System (LEIDS). While chiropractors are required
to attend a board meeting within their first year of licensure, they also receive continuing
education credit for attending the meeting. Additionally the report will assist board staff in
tracking attendance relative to this requirement and will create a more efficient
regulation process.
The Division of Medical Quality Assurance (MQA) held its annual Board Chair/Vice Chair Long-
Range Planning meeting on September 24. Board chairs, vice chairs, and staff gathered in
Tallahassee to discuss MQA’s licensing, enforcement, budgetary and technology updates.
Additionally, Lucy Gee, Division Director of MQA, presented the results of a survey which
provided the board members opportunity to comment on the division’s strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats (SWOT). Mrs. Gee used the results of this SWOT survey to facilitate a
strategic planning session with the board members. The proposed strategies will be used in the
development of MQA’s Fiscal Year 2015-2018 strategic plan.
Derrick Glymph, CRNA, DNAP, and Lisa Johnson, LPN, RN, both members of the Board of
Nursing, have been appointed to key committees within the National Council of State Boards
of Nursing. Dr. Glymph will serve on the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) Practice
Committee through 2017. He will work with the committee to explore the pros and cons
of Member Board oversight of APRN education programs and make recommendations to
the Board of Directors. Ms. Johnson will join colleagues on the National Council Licensing
Exam (NCLEX) Examination Committee until 2018. She will advise the Board of Directors on
matters related to the NCLEX examination process and recommend test plans to the Delegate
Assembly. In addition, Anna Hubbard, EdD, ARNP, CNE, and Diana Forst, BA, RN, will work
with the NCLEX Item Review Subcommittee until 2017 and will assist the NCLEX Examination
Committee with item review.
The Board of Medicine’s Initial Licensure Unit reduced initial licensure processing times
significantly from last fiscal year. For the 2014-2015 Fiscal Year to date, board staff reduced
the total number of days to issue a license for medical doctors from 106.97 days to
85.32 days, a reduction in processing time of 21.65 days. Board staff also reduced the total
number of days to issue a registration for resident and house physicians by over 9 days and
reduced the total number of days to issue a physician assistant license by 9.48 days.