Safeguarding the public's trust through the self-governance of peer review

1. Nurses must monitor the quality of professional practice in order to safeguard the public's trust in nursing as a professional discipline and to ensure that nursing is self-regulating, accountable, and autonomous. 2. A peer review process indicates self-governance and advances the profession of nursing. 3. A peer review committee is responsible for gathering information, evaluating nursing practice, and reporting the findings to the nurse and the initiator of the review. Any deliberate or negligent acts or omissions of the nurse under review are reported to the state board of nursing.