Alabama Board of Nursing

The mission of the Alabama Board of Nursing is to safeguard and promote the health, safety and welfare of the public through licensing and approval of qualified individuals and adopting and enforcing legal standards for nursing education and nursing practice. Code Commissioner’s note. – Acts 1993, No. 93-183, § 2, provides: “The existence and functioning of the Alabama Board of Nursing,

National Council of State Boards of Nursing

NCSBN is an independent, 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. The impetus for NCSBN’s creation arose out of recognition that in order to guard the safety of the public, the organization involved in the regulation of nurses needed to be a separate entity from the American Nurses Association (ANA) Council on State Boards of Nursing, which represents professional nurses.