Online Resources

Online Resources for Professional and
Occupational Regulatory Board Members
Selected to accompany the board member training manual of
The Council on Licensure, Enforcement and Regulation

History and Purpose
¨ Legal Update: Current Issues Affecting Accrediting Bodies, Susan Dorn and Kristin Becker, Resource Brief 97-2, The Council on Licensure, Enforcement and Regulation, 1997.

¨ Sunset, Sunrise and Agency Audits, the Council on Licensure, Enforcement and Regulation, 2001.

Role of a Board Member
¨ Board Cafe: first electronic newsletter exclusively for members of nonprofit boards

Board Member Training Manuals
¨ CLEAR 1987 (.pdf)
¨ Idaho Bureau of Occupational Licenses (.pdf)

¨ Code of Ethics for Council Members, Ontario College of Teachers

¨ Free Complete Toolkit for Boards by Carter McNamara

¨ BoardSource (formerly the National Center for Nonprofit Boards)

Examinations
¨ CLEAR Exam Review (formerly the National Clearinghouse on Examination Information Newsletter). Lexington, KY: CLEAR. Published twice a year for $30.00, free to all CLEAR members.

¨ Job Analysis: A Guide for Regulatory Boards, Roberta Chinn and Norman Hertz, Resource Brief 98-5, The Council on Licensure, Enforcement and Regulation, Lexington, Kentucky.

¨ Licensure Examinations, Norman Hertz, Resource Brief, 99-2, The Council on Licensure, Enforcement and Regulation, Lexington, Kentucky.

¨ Questions to Ask Regarding Test Preparation, Construction, Administration, and Post Test Analysis, The Clearinghouse on Licensure, Enforcement and Regulation, Lexington, Kentucky.

Professional Discipline
¨ Model Sanctions by CLEAR's Regulatory Issues Subcommittee, Resource Brief 96-2, The Council on Licensure, Enforcement and Regulation, Lexington, Kentucky

¨ The Reinstatement Hearing in the Discipline Process: Ethics and Guidelines, Brian Donohue, Resource Brief 98-1, The Council on Licensure, Enforcement and Regulation, Lexington, Kentucky

¨ State Licensing Boards and the Limits of State Action Immunity, Meredyth Smith Andrus, Resource Brief 98-6, The Council on Licensure, Enforcement and Regulation, Lexington, Kentucky

¨ Associated Regulatory Investigators

Continuing Competence
¨ Assuring Continued Competence - Policy Questions and Approaches: How Should the Profession Respond? , Whittaker, S., Smolenski, M. and Carson, W., Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, June 30, 2000.

¨ Continuing Competence, Office of the Professions, New York State Education Department

¨ Continuing Competence Self-Assessment Tool, College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta

¨ Professional Licensure and Quality: the Evidence Stanley J. Gross,

¨ Quality Assurance, College of Nurses of Ontario

¨ Sample continuing competence legislation - State of California Board of Podiatric Medicine

¨ Standards of Competence, Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy

Reform
¨ Reforming Health Care Workforce Regulation: Policy Considerations for the 21st Century, Report of the Pew Health Professions Commission Taskforce on Health Care Workforce Regulation, 1995.

¨ Considering the Future of Health Care Workforce Regulation, Responses from the field to the Pew Health Professions Commission's December 1995 report, UCSF Center for the Health Professions, 1997.