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The Week in Brief Podcast is your weekly guide to the latest news, issues, and events in licensure, regulation, and digital government.

This week, Sarah and Paul discuss new legislation passed in Wisconsin amidst criticism over a statewide licensing backlog, Utah's new licensure pathways for immigrants credentialed outside the U.S., and more.

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The Week in Brief Podcast is your weekly guide to the latest news, issues, and events in licensure, regulation, and digital government.

This week, Sarah and Paul discuss pushback from nursing leaders over the elimination of continuing education requirements in Montana, Missouri's recent enactment of three new interstate licensing compacts, and more.

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On this episode of Ascend Radio, Manchester Business School professor Kieran Walshe sits down with Paul Leavoy to discuss the crucial role of research in effective regulation.

The Week in Brief Podcast is your weekly guide to the latest news, issues, and events in licensure, regulation, and digital government.

This week, Sarah and Jordan discuss a move from Big Tech companies to pursue self-regulation as more advanced AI models continue to develop, efforts from Indiana lawmakers to assess state policies at regulatory agencies, and more.

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The Week in Brief Podcast is your weekly guide to the latest news, issues, and events in licensure, regulation, and digital government.

This week, Sarah and Paul discuss Washington's enactment of the Nurse Licensure Compact and its new reporting requirements for hospitals, North Carolina's move to simplify the licensing process for military personnel seeking to become educators, and more.

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The Week in Brief Podcast is your weekly guide to the latest news, issues, and events in licensure, regulation, and digital government.

This week, Sarah and Paul discuss efforts from the NL government to allow out-of-province licensed psychiatric nurses to work in the province, new regulations for digital asset services in Texas and Louisiana, and more.

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The Week in Brief Podcast is your weekly guide to the latest news, issues, and events in licensure, regulation, and digital government.

This week, Sarah and Paul discuss the end of a six-month freeze on new regulations in Nevada, legislation that would enter Missouri into two new interstate compacts, and more.

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On this episode of Ascend Radio, University of Toronto researcher Zubin Austin joins Paul Leavoy to discuss how regulators can better support and engage health care workers through regulatory approaches that center kindness, empathy, understanding, and connection.

The Week in Brief Podcast is your weekly guide to the latest news, issues, and events in licensure, regulation, and digital government.

This week, Sarah and Paul discuss Nevada's creation of the U.S.'s first-ever earned wage access (EWA) state licensing regime, new cybersecurity education opportunities for police officers in Texas, and more.

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The Week in Brief Podcast is your weekly guide to the latest news, issues, and events in licensure, regulation, and digital government.

This week, Sarah and Paul discuss the expansion of sports gambling opportunities in North Carolina, calls for regulation in the world of deep sea tourism following the OceanGate disaster, and much more.

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