BON Bulletin

In TX we get the "Texas Board of Nursing Bulletin" every quarter. Within the publication are changes to NPA, other changes that effect nurses, accreditation status's for schools, and a list of naughty nurses who get taught a lesson...errr...I mean actions which indicate the BON is protecting the consumer.

I have 2 sets of questions that come from the most recent bulletin.

1. For TX nurses (and maybe all nurses)...What's the word on this "Jurisprudence Exam" that will be required "to all initial nursing licensure applicants...who apply on or after September 1, 2008"? Is this something all states are doing? So now it won't be a simple matter of taking the NCLEX to become a nurse? YUCKIE!

2. For non TX nurses...do y'all receive some form of communication similar to what I briefly described above? If so, does it list the folks who have been disciplined (whether thru reprimand, remedial ed, license suspension or even revocation) by the BON? What I'm ultmately wanting to find out is how large is this list. Ours is regularly about 300 or so names (RNs and LVNs); is that pretty typical? I realize there will be some variation based on the number of nurses in a state.
http://www.utmb.edu/imh/MedJur_toc_intro.pdfit seems to be a texas thing
part of my lpn and bsn education included content on medical-legal and nursing ethic education. most pa diploma programs also had this info as part of our practice standards.from members posts and questions posted here, it appears this topic is not part of all rn programs, therfore texas making it a practice requirement. licenses will be be able ro claim ignorence of the law when brought before bon.pa has a bureau of professional and occupational affairs that oversees all 27 licensing boards and disciplinary actions posted online every few months bpoa: disciplinary actions and in nursing newsletter yearly, if that, due to our low licence fees not supporting more frequent publication.since public posting on state website, i suspect will not see in future newsletters.part of my responsiblity as central intake manager is to perform/maintain physician license verification + sanction check for our homecare agency (6,000 doctors+) along with my 8 nursing staff...so i review these sites monthly. there are many more nurses that doctors mentioned with disciplinary issues but there are more nurses than physicians in pa.pa march 2008: state board of nursing actionspa disciplinary actions: march - july pa board of medicine pa board of osteopathic medicine pa board of nursing new jersey board of nursing disciplinary and licensure de public disciplinary actions kentucky: board of nursing - case studiesmn:the following information about the complaint handling and ...from nurseweek 8/2000:nurse, interrupteda disciplinary action can put a wrinkle in your career - and tie you up in knotsdisciplinary actions against nurses: trends and forecasts.monitoring the born: it's your nursing license that's at stake
I'm licensed in KS and MO, and get the same thing from both states. The naughty list is never that large though! :chuckle I always have fun reading it, thinking....how could anyone actually DO that?
The other healthcare professions in TX also have to take a jurisprudence exam. Yes, I just got my quarterly thing. The list this time was a lot bigger than I have seen prior lists. And now that they are putting the LVNs and RNs together on the list, it looks even worse. What I can't believe is how these employers STILL are not getting online and verifying licensure on people. It seems like there were more imposters this quarter than last quarter.
Quote from FroggyMamaI'm licensed in KS and MO, and get the same thing from both states. The naughty list is never that large though! :chuckle I always have fun reading it, thinking....how could anyone actually DO that?
I truly believe in "but for the grace of God go I"... but there are too many nurses out there working who have been in alot of trouble that act "as though nothing has ever happened, as pure as the white driven snow, holier than the rest of us" when all the while they are working with licenses that are on probation or with disciplinary actions against them. Those are the nurses who scare me and I wish I knew about them so I could be wary while at work. They're only too eager to blame someone else. We had one who watched and found out another nurses password to the pyxis and was stealing narcs under another nurses name and gladly let this other nurse get arrested and OMG she was so sweet, polite, professional, wise in her advice but in reality a big time narc diverter.
Quote from BinkieRNI truly believe in "but for the grace of God go I"... but there are too many nurses out there working who have been in alot of trouble that act "as though nothing has ever happened, as pure as the white driven snow, holier than the rest of us" when all the while they are working with licenses that are on probation or with disciplinary actions against them. Those are the nurses who scare me and I wish I knew about them so I could be wary while at work. They're only too eager to blame someone else. We had one who watched and found out another nurses password to the pyxis and was stealing narcs under another nurses name and gladly let this other nurse get arrested and OMG she was so sweet, polite, professional, wise in her advice but in reality a big time narc diverter.
I know that the TX BON is disciplining nurses for things that have nothing to do with nursing. It has to do with their little clause about "moral turpitude". I've talked with some nurses that got arrested for minor traffic violations because the cops were looking to make more revenue and needed more arrests. The BON disciplined the nurses because they were arrested without actually looking at the "crime".Perhaps things like this account for the increase in names on the list.
moved to career forum as resource.pa has "moral turpitude" clause also; most actions are not minor auto related....022 pa. code 237.9. crimes involving moral turpitude.