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RNS Number : 8983V  CGFNS International  12 April 2023

Responding to the Need for Accelerated Nursing Credentials Verification, CGFNS and NCSBN Step Up Collaboration to Address Gaps and Improve Efficiencies

PHILADELPHIA, PA / ACCESSWIRE / April 12, 2023 / As U.S. health systems
continue to struggle with a chronic nursing shortage, the National Council of
State Boards of Nursing and CGFNS International, a global leader in
international credentials evaluation to support health professional mobility,
are expanding their collaboration to help expedite credentials verification
while boosting fraud detection and ensuring patient safety.

 

The cooperative effort will focus on information-sharing between the two
organizations and technology improvements aimed at creating efficiencies that
will streamline credentials verification for nurses applying to work in a new
jurisdiction. This comes as state nursing boards across the U.S. face growing
pressure to accelerate verification processes and enable nursing staff
vacancies to be filled more quickly.

Meanwhile, with growing numbers of foreign-trained nurses applying to work in
the United States, the collaboration will also aim to improve efficiencies in
verifying their qualifications and shorten approval times, while also
improving the capabilities of verification systems to detect fraudulent
activities. To further strengthen fraud protection and ensure patient safety,
the two organizations will work to facilitate data-sharing between CGFNS'
worldwide credentials verification systems and NCSBN's online tools that
member boards use to share information about imposter and/or fraudulent
nurses.

"Together, we want to vastly reduce the time-consuming manual processes that
nursing schools, licensing authorities and nurses themselves must go through
to gather and verify transcripts, examination scores, licenses and other
information that is essential to ensuring that nurses are qualified to
practice," said Peter Preziosi, President and CEO of CGFNS International.

"At a time when health systems are struggling to fill nursing staff vacancies,
this collaboration will help expand the flow of qualified nurses to where they
are needed by making verification systems more efficient, while hardening them
against fraud," he added.

"Our members, the state nursing boards, face the enormous challenge of
shortening the time it takes to access the necessary information needed to
gain licensure, while also ensuring the integrity of the health workforce and
patient safety. The steps we are taking to interface our systems with CGFNS
will help us achieve both of those goals," said David Benton, Chief Executive
Officer of the NCBSN.

About CGFNS International, Inc.

Founded in 1977 and based in Philadelphia, CGFNS International is an
immigration-neutral not-for-profit organization proudly serving as the world's
largest credentials evaluation organization for the nursing and allied health
professions. For more information, visit www.cgfns.org
(https://pr.report/7jg-iFDR) .

About NCSBN

Empowering and supporting nursing regulators across the world in their mandate
to protect the public, NCSBN is an independent, not-for-profit organization.
As a global leader in regulatory excellence, NCSBN champions regulatory
solutions to borderless health care delivery, agile regulatory systems and
nurses practicing to the full scope of their education, experience and
expertise. A world leader in test development and administration, NCSBN's
NCLEX® Exams are internationally recognized as the preeminent nursing
examinations.

Contact Information:

Mukul Bakhshi, Esq.

Chief of Strategy and Government Affairs
mbakhshi@cgfns.org (mailto:mbakhshi@cgfns.org)

(215) 243-5825

SOURCE: CGFNS International

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