Board of nursing discipline

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has anyone ever gone to a BON meeting? and really listened.

wow it is UNREAL, what this board is doing.

Going after nurses to silence them to help out hospitals.

if anyone knew how boards operated they would NEVER get into nursing.

I know this is greek if you havent been through the ringer.

When they dont have a case they use "experts" which is a high paid hack to find something, in your past, it is down right sickening.

I hope every nurse out there starts a second career, has LOTS of , and never signs a conseng agreement ! that is plea bargain. dont do it you can do your own admin law case. It is all a scam. 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.

At my diploma school a hundred years, the school bused all the seniors to the state capital to attend a BON meeting, including the disciplinary hearings, every year. So, yes, I've been to a BON meeting in my state (at the time) and I've sat through a random day of disciplinary hearings (and "really listened"). The hearings seemed completely fair and reasonable to me. Yes, the Board was tough on nurses who had violated the rules/regs related to nursing practice in the state, but I didn't see anything that appeared to me to be Board members being unfair, unreasonable, or abusive. Sorry you feel like you've had a bad experience.

One of our nursing courses had a field trip to the Board as part of the course. That visit did more to open students' eyes about the field of nursing than all the faculty war stories could ever accomplish. I fail to see how the OP could discern all the actions she deems criticism-provoking from such a meeting. Sounds like the workings of an overused imagination.

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I'm wondering at this point just what the OP was accused of (and apparently, lost the fight regarding)?

ALL her posts talk of the corruption and maleveolence of the Arizona BoN, it doesn't stop.

I'd have to again ask the OP: What is it you suggest an RN or LPN do, since we all have to work under the oversight of a Board of Nursing for our respective States? We can't "opt out", so.....what are you looking for?

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Specializes in Critical Care, Education.

I have attended BoN meetings for a variety of reasons - e.g., participated in various task forces & committees that were involved in state activities, provided testimony on important issues, wanted to hear about new developments or legislation, etc. I have had an opportunity to sit in the peanut gallery during disciplinary proceedings, but only (thank heavens) as an observer.

My state has mandated & highly structured Peer Review. We were the only one until Kansas joined us a few years ago. We are the only state with a legally defined nurse-patient duty that cannot be subsumed by the physician-patient relationship.... so yeah, the expectations are high. In order to obtain & maintain a license, you have to complete state-mandated jurisprudence education that includes all the specific rules & regulations. So - no surprises and the rules and regulations are pretty clear.

It must be a terribly frustrating to feel as though your BoN is an adversary for nurses. No judgement, just an observation.

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I couldn't agree more!

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I couldn't agree more!

(Agree with whom?)

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