Board of nursing discipline

The BON can post 'factual findings" on a nurse when they are all lies, taken out of context, they have their croonies who will lie, When caught in lies, they still put their strange comments on the web . take my advise I which someone would have told me. the web site above tells it all.

I need a secret decoder ring for the above.

OP, it is crystal clear you have had some unpleasant run-ins with your own BoN, as evidenced by the fact that EVERY POST you have made since joining in September 2014 has been a complaint against the entire BoN system everywhere. The theme became noticeable some time back.

You are angry about what nursing is, and what nurses deal with. You are angry about BoN decisions (that may or may not affect you, personally).

What is it you are hoping to accomplish? Do you believe that merely by reading that people have difficulties when they are faced with BoN disciplinary actions that no one should go into nursing, or stay in it? We cannot avoid having an agency (BoN) that oversees professional licensees...so....

What is it you are actually wanting to happen here?

California BON was so corrupt the governor fired almost all of them a few years back.

What website above?

What website above?

Looks like it was edited out of the OP

What website above?

It was a Facebook link that violated the TOS, so removed.

OP, it is crystal clear you have had some unpleasant run-ins with your own BoN, as evidenced by the fact that EVERY POST you have made since joining in September 2014 has been a complaint against the entire BoN system everywhere. The theme became noticeable some time back.

Yep, it is obvious OP has a cob up her butt about the BoN.

Going to a BoN meeting does sound interesting, though. The quarterly newsletter put out by the Missouri BoN would include the most recent disciplinary actions and the violations that brought on the censure, probation or revocation. Pretty reasonable punishment for diversion, theft, practicing without a valid license, intoxicated while on the job, etc.

Nursys is even more explicit in that you can read the actual court documents that support the decision. One of my former nurse mentors had a problem with alcohol. She tried to explain to me it was OK to drink while she was on call, after all it was just for hospice. It didn't seem right but I let it go. A few years later I was reading the newsletter and caught her name under the revocation section. Public records available on line tell the sad story of her getting caught at work acting funny, alcohol on breath at 9:00 in the morning, escorted to testing center and evidence of intoxication procured. They initially gave her probation but when a urine sample tested positive for breakdown products of alcohol they had to pull her license altogether.

So, I'm more likely to believe someone has a problem and is in denial about it when they go launching off about how the BoN has nothing better to do than go after them and everything is a lie or conspiracy and everybody should watch their back for the corrupt and sneaky BoN.

Nursing is a high responsibility, high accountability profession. Not everybody can accept that.

If each state's BON stalked nurses the way the OP claims, one would think that those of us with lengthy careers would know hundreds of nurses who have been in trouble with the BON.

I have worked for over 30 years in facilities both big and small. I have seen two nurses' names who I knew appear on my BON newsletter who received reprimands. One was for drugs/alcohol (which was not a surprise to anyone who knew her). The second was for a boundaries violation.

The rules are the same for everyone. The problem is, once you break the rules and find yourself in front of the board, you are at their mercy. They will err on the side of protecting the public.

It's a tough gig going through that process. Don't always assume that someone is guilty. Just as any process mistakes can be made. There has to be some form of Law and Order...so true! Every system has it's checks and balances. The Board members wear many hats, just as most Nurses do; they are Nurses as well! I monitored the Board in my state; 4 years. Tweaking; needed. Nursing is always evolving. New laws, new rules and allot of different circumstances; hard for them to keep up too. Nurses working in our environment will make mistakes, just as the Board will make mistakes. My point being, don't judge both too harshly. We all have a story.

My one experience with the BON was months of feeling like I was in a meat grinder.

However, when I finally sat across the desk from the investigator I was treated fairly. And oddly enough, with compassion.

I'm sure it all depends on where you are, and what you've done, but my experience was nothing like the OPs.

like any other law enforcement group it can be used and abused.