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Well, I'm just extremely humbled to be
receiving a Professional Achievement Award

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from NCSBN and it really sits
on a combination of just a lifetime

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of professional work, but as a
state senator in South Dakota,

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I was able to bring forward SB61 which
knit together the house of nursing and we

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were able to do transformative legislation
that took nurses away from being duly

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licensed from the board of medicine.
And it was something that, you know,

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nurses should be in every place and space
taking care of people and I'm just really

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happy to have been able to lead in such a
meaningful way a law change that allows

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people to have nurses wherever they live.
What it means to me to receive this is,

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you know, it's very humbling because
nothing is ever done in isolation or

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alone and the change in legislation was
really something that was an itch that I

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needed to scratch for 30 years.
It bothered me that nurses were duly

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licensed and all of a sudden I was in
a position to be able to do something

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about it. Thank you so very much,
NCSBN, for this incredible honor,

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for being a group that would acknowledge
the work that I've done in such a very

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meaningful way.