The scope of professional nursing practice is determined by the rules promulgated by which organization?
A) American Nurses' Association (ANA)
B) Institute of Medicine (IOM)
C) State Board of Nursing
D) State Nursing Association

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Professional nursing practice is regulated by each state's Board of Nursing. The ANA is the professional organization of registered nursing in the United States and may influence, but it does not regulate. The IOM collaborated with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to improve the fractured health care system in the United States, and it makes recommendations, not rules. The state nursing associations are state organizations of the ANA and may collaborate with the public and boards of nursing to promote nursing rules which improve health care.

The Scope of Professional Nursing Practice Is Determined by the Rules