Texas Board of Nursing (TBN)

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The Texas Board of Nursing (BON or Board) is responsible for licensing, regulating, and monitoring the status of approximately 260,000 licensed registered nurses and 98,000 licensed vocational nurses. The BON approves 114 nursing education programs for registered nurses and 98 programs for licensed vocational nurses. In 1909, the State of Texas formally recognized professional nursing with the passage of the first Nursing Practice Act (NPA).