By State Representative Sharon Cooper (R) HD 41

Everyone, since we’ll all be patients eventually, needs to pay attention to the most lobbied issue before the Georgia Legislature. SB 49 eliminates the Georgia Board of Nurses’ (GBON) authority to maintain Georgia’s standards for registered nurses (RNs). Excelsior College, a non-traditional New York program, the only nursing program in the United States with no supervised clinical training[1], is pushing this bill. (more…)

ATLANTA—Speaker of the House Glenn Richardson (R-Hiram) has tapped State Representative Sharon Cooper to serve on the House Study Committee on Biological Privacy. (more…)