Government Supervision in the Duties of Independent Licensed Practical Nurses: A Normative Analysis of Competency Standards and Public Rights Protection

Abstract

Nursing practice is a series of health service activities nurses provide to patients.Nurses carrying out their practice and professional work must be competent, as proven by a competency or professional certificate.There are social facts in the form of irregularities in nursing services, such as the provision of nursing services that are not by the Nurse Code of Ethics, professional standards, and the law, even though nurse practitioners in the field have tried to carry out services according to existing standards.This shows a lack of monitoring, coaching, and supervision.This research aims to analyze the nature of supervision over implementing nurses' duties with independent practice permits.The type of research used by researchers is normative legal research, namely legal research that attempts to find legal rules, principles, and doctrines to answer the legal issues being faced.The data sources used in this research are secondary data obtained through primary legal materials and secondary legal materials.The data obtained in this research will be analyzed using qualitative descriptive analysis methods.This research concludes that the essence of supervision by the central government and regional government in implementing the duties of licensed independent practice nurses is to realize the implementation of independent practice that is right on target, safe, quality, efficient, equitable, and affordable.2) The essence of supervision over the implementation of the duties of independent practice nurses who have a license is to protect the rights of the community and, secondly, to fulfill competency standards for independent practice nurses, as well as to provide benefits for supervision of the implementation of the duties of nurses who have an independent practice permit.

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