How We Translate Official Rules Into Plain English

We start from the primary document and strip each requirement down to what it asks of the reader.

What we do with official documents

Our readers are registered nurses, nurse practitioners and physician assistants deciding whether to move into aesthetic injecting. Many work in or around Morristown, New Jersey. Rules, requirement documents and official forms are dense, so we rewrite them as short directives you can act on.

Our sources are the documents themselves. Examples include the ACCME accreditation rules and New Jersey Administrative Code § 13:37-6.2.

A requirement before and after

Here is the method on one document.

• Before: the heading of the New Jersey rule, "Delegation of selected nursing tasks".
• After: the rule is about delegating selected nursing tasks. Open it and read which tasks.

We cut the language down. We do not add claims the document does not make.

When we name a publisher

When a page states a fact, it names the publisher, such as Medical Economics on New Jersey continuing medical education or the AMA on physician CME credit. A statement about licensing or credit goes only as far as that publisher's passage goes.

Where the translation stops

A plain-language reading is not the rule. It leaves out detail on purpose. Go to the original document before you act on a license, a credit count or a supervision question. Your license board, employer or supervising physician has the last word on your own case.