WEBVTT 00:00:01.300 --> 00:00:04.300 position:50% align:middle ♪ [music] ♪ 00:00:04.725 --> 00:00:08.501 position:50% align:middle - [Announcer] 2020 Distinguished Achievement Award. 00:00:09.659 --> 00:00:13.659 position:50% align:middle David Swankin has spent his career serving the public interest. 00:00:13.659 --> 00:00:19.689 position:50% align:middle He was the first Executive Director of the White House Office of Consumer Affairs in the mid-1960s, 00:00:19.689 --> 00:00:24.823 position:50% align:middle served as Director of the Bureau of Labor Standards, and Deputy Assistant Secretary at the 00:00:24.823 --> 00:00:26.839 position:50% align:middle U.S. Department of Labor. 00:00:26.839 --> 00:00:33.734 position:50% align:middle David also received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Institute for Credentialing Excellence. 00:00:33.734 --> 00:00:39.592 position:50% align:middle As President and CEO of the Citizen Advocacy Center, he has worked closely with NCSBN 00:00:39.592 --> 00:00:41.714 position:50% align:middle for more than two decades. 00:00:41.714 --> 00:00:46.704 position:50% align:middle He has a sincere interest in focus on issues of importance in nursing regulation. 00:00:46.704 --> 00:00:52.064 position:50% align:middle He has researched and written extensively about the need for consumer input on health profession boards, 00:00:52.064 --> 00:00:59.264 position:50% align:middle the need for board transparency, and most importantly, the need for full practice authority for advanced 00:00:59.264 --> 00:01:01.686 position:50% align:middle practice registered nurses. 00:01:01.686 --> 00:01:05.806 position:50% align:middle David has been a leading force in bringing together experts from the legal, consumer, 00:01:05.806 --> 00:01:13.166 position:50% align:middle and regulatory realms to explore relevant topics to nursing regulation, including disciplinary processes, 00:01:13.166 --> 00:01:19.096 position:50% align:middle alternative to discipline programs, and practitioner remediation in lieu of discipline. 00:01:19.096 --> 00:01:25.326 position:50% align:middle David was selected by the NCSBN board of directors to lead the review and comment from a public perspective 00:01:25.326 --> 00:01:30.546 position:50% align:middle on the outcomes of NCSBN's Regulation 2030 meeting. 00:01:30.546 --> 00:01:37.566 position:50% align:middle Additionally, he has collaborated with NCSBN in publications, conferences, and presentations. 00:01:37.566 --> 00:01:42.446 position:50% align:middle He also participated in networking sessions for public board of nursing members, 00:01:42.446 --> 00:01:48.326 position:50% align:middle and has reviewed several nursing regulatory bodies' alternative to discipline programs. 00:01:48.326 --> 00:01:53.466 position:50% align:middle For his advocacy, support, and promotion of NCSBN's mission and vision, 00:01:53.466 --> 00:01:58.626 position:50% align:middle David received the Distinguished Achievement Award in 2020. 00:02:01.182 --> 00:02:07.084 position:50% align:middle - [David] Hi, everybody, thank you so much for giving the National...the Citizen Advocacy Center, 00:02:07.084 --> 00:02:12.851 position:50% align:middle the National Council giving us the Distinguished Achievement Award to me. 00:02:12.851 --> 00:02:15.021 position:50% align:middle There it is. 00:02:15.021 --> 00:02:19.121 position:50% align:middle And we were thrilled to get it, I was thrilled to get it. 00:02:19.121 --> 00:02:22.201 position:50% align:middle To be honest with you, I think it should have gone to the organization. 00:02:22.201 --> 00:02:29.471 position:50% align:middle We're very small and I'm one person of about 5 or 6 or 10 of us that are active in it, 00:02:29.471 --> 00:02:32.051 position:50% align:middle have been active in it since it began. 00:02:32.051 --> 00:02:40.111 position:50% align:middle And I think that...anyway, I accept it in behalf of the organization because it's 00:02:40.111 --> 00:02:43.071 position:50% align:middle the organization that has done the work. 00:02:43.071 --> 00:02:50.451 position:50% align:middle I'm a co-founder of the organization, the other co-founder is Becky LeBuhn, 00:02:50.451 --> 00:02:52.821 position:50% align:middle who serves as the chair of the board. 00:02:52.821 --> 00:03:00.821 position:50% align:middle And the two of us had much to do by developing the PREP program and I want to take my short amount of time, 00:03:00.821 --> 00:03:04.201 position:50% align:middle I think that might be the reason that we received this award. 00:03:04.201 --> 00:03:11.461 position:50% align:middle The PREP program was nationally recognized as a program designed to identify practitioners, 00:03:11.461 --> 00:03:15.311 position:50% align:middle health practitioners, and we did it with boards of nursing and we asked 00:03:15.311 --> 00:03:20.201 position:50% align:middle boards of nursing and boards of medicine from around the country if they'd like to participate. 00:03:20.201 --> 00:03:28.211 position:50% align:middle And participate meant that you do something besides slapping people down when they do something so bad that 00:03:28.211 --> 00:03:35.885 position:50% align:middle they ought to have their license taken away or limited, and that's what the discipline program is of most 00:03:35.885 --> 00:03:37.135 position:50% align:middle house licensing boards. 00:03:37.135 --> 00:03:43.615 position:50% align:middle But we thought that wouldn't it be nice if we could run a program that would find people before that happened, 00:03:43.615 --> 00:03:46.115 position:50% align:middle an early identification program. 00:03:46.115 --> 00:03:53.135 position:50% align:middle And that meant finding a board that was willing to do it, that was willing to not compromise their 00:03:53.135 --> 00:04:02.363 position:50% align:middle discipline program, but to find some of the people that they deal with all the time, hospitals, nursing homes, 00:04:02.363 --> 00:04:08.843 position:50% align:middle other types of providers that said, "We would like to be a participant in a program that 00:04:08.843 --> 00:04:12.103 position:50% align:middle identified persons that needed early intervention." 00:04:12.103 --> 00:04:16.223 position:50% align:middle And that's what the PREP program is, it's an early intervention program. 00:04:16.223 --> 00:04:22.003 position:50% align:middle And I think the reason we got this award was because there was a recognition on the part of the 00:04:22.003 --> 00:04:29.323 position:50% align:middle National Council, on the part of the boards that participated, that this was a really good idea and 00:04:29.323 --> 00:04:31.118 position:50% align:middle maybe we can spread it widely. 00:04:31.118 --> 00:04:42.488 position:50% align:middle I know that it's been described many times at meetings of both the individual nursing boards and in NCSBN. 00:04:42.488 --> 00:04:51.568 position:50% align:middle And I think there's been a lot of interest on the part of other boards of nursing that said, 00:04:51.568 --> 00:04:54.098 position:50% align:middle "We ought to try something like that, that's a good idea." 00:04:54.098 --> 00:05:00.678 position:50% align:middle We don't think of ourselves as traffic cops hiding in the bushes, that's not how we think of ourselves. 00:05:00.678 --> 00:05:05.458 position:50% align:middle We think of ourselves as protecting the public and doing that any way we can. 00:05:05.458 --> 00:05:10.008 position:50% align:middle And early identification would be great, the more we can find it, and that's what we did. 00:05:10.008 --> 00:05:12.558 position:50% align:middle And so, thank you so much for this award. 00:05:12.558 --> 00:05:16.795 position:50% align:middle Speaking for all of us, we appreciate it very, very much.