The Board of Nursing has a responsibility to exclude individuals who pose a risk to the public health and safety from licensure/registration. Nursing care is often of an intimate physical nature which affords nurses/UAPs access to information about a client as well as to the client’s personal property and loved ones in a way that is not available in a business or social relationship or to the public.
Another major reason to implement CHRC relates to the interstate Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC). North Dakota, as a participatory state that has enacted the NLC, must meet uniform core requirements to participate in the compact. A uniform core requirement of the NLC is that CHRC be conducted prior to a license being granted. North Dakota has agreed to comply with this requirement and must do so in order to continue participation in the NLC.