Can I lose my license for being nude on internet?

[climbs]

I've been an LPN in PA for the last four years. Prior to getting my license though, I did some modeling for a company, some of it nude but tasteful(no, not Media). I work with someone that used to model for the same company as well, and we're both curious if the board of nursing can and will revoke our licenses if they're found. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I love being a nurse and I can't see myself doing anything else.

[CoffeeRTC, BSN, RN]

Heck...if you are a warm body and willing to work, I know quite a few LTCs that would hire you in a minute. SRLY.

[tthor5220]

Well this is one problem its safe to say in my case I will NEVER have! As an old, fat, and balding RN (male) who wouldn't be caught dead naked in front of a camera, I am in the clear! But nowadays you don't know just exactly what you can get fired for. I think your license is safe, but an individual job? Maybe not.

[dnnc52]

Try to keep that past behind. To not tell a soul where you work about it. because when it comes down to the long run you don't want to let it surface. if worse comes to worse and my job was at stake " I have no control of waht my twin sister did" nah: I think you can stay clear of any BON problems from the past. I think it's want you do now. I know a few nurses who do a few things on the side to make ends meet, that the board would not like but they seem to cover their self well....Enjoy you career...

[Bortaz, MSN, RN]

PA BON regs has "moral turpitude" language., most of PA pretty conservative/

Moral Turpentine, eh? Isn't that what they made Spanky, Alfalfa and Buckwheat take on the Rascals?

[CrunchRN, ADN, RN]

It shouldn't be any of there or future employers business. Sheesh.

When did big brother get so intrusive?

I have never had a nude picture taken, and wouldn't (at age 48 - yikes!), but really, it should not be the nsg board or an employers business.

If you are law abiding, and practice per your nursing act then they should really butt out!

[nursenow]

I believe you will be OK but could you post the online addy of the photos so I can evaluate them more closely for you? :)

[groanup]

ahhhh!!!! drat!!! You should not have any trouble getting license and job. You also will probably find that most employers do not care about past "photo history" unless it reflects poor judgement or could be expected to become an issue.

Then again, check out this article about what happened to

a detention officer in Arkansas:

http://www.helium.com/items/1869422-hot-jailer-jessie-lunderby-suspended-for-posing-nude-for-playboy

Of course, it was Playboy, and I suppose they used her name.

[adriane Jagger]

I would love to remove any pictures, but I don't have the rights to them.

My name isn't associated with any of the pictures, but my face is visible and we all know everything is pretty accessible via the internet nowadays.

It just makes me somewhat angry that the state of PA could try to revoke a license based on personal morals. No laws were broken. I can understand if an employer wanted to terminate me based on this fact (although I don't believe my current employer would, and even if they did, I would get an attorney.)

And psychonaut, nice try.

I doubt that you would have a problem, unless, as other people have noted, there is some other issue that arises- some employers will use anything they can against you when they need a scapegoat.

That said, I would make sure my hair and makeup are different from picture, to show that you are not the same person that you were then-both figuratively and literally.

It's good that you posted this- regardless of the current "expose all as often as you can" culture, NO ONE should allow themselves to be photographed/filmed naked unless they are Ok with the whole world seeing. If your boyfirend wants to make naked videos, you don't need that boyfriend!

[Boognish]

We just learned in class about all of the seemingly odd things that one can lose a nursing licence over. I remember that hosting a Mediaographic website on a personal computer/server was one of them (which is somewhat understandable)- but I doubt that past nude modeling would be a problem. If one were to pose nude after obtaining their licence, I don't know. I fail to see how nudity is a "moral" issue at all, but this is a strange land we live in.

[MaritesaRN]

I've been an LPN in PA for the last four years. Prior to getting my license though, I did some modeling for a company, some of it nude but tasteful(no, not Media). I work with someone that used to model for the same company as well, and we're both curious if the board of nursing can and will revoke our licenses if they're found. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I love being a nurse and I can't see myself doing anything else.

You know , employeers comes in different colors. Some will not care about that as long as it is not a present occupation, some just do not care as long as you are doing your job well within your defined role, and if you do come across an employer who feels they have a right to investigate everything in your life just to get a job??? Stay away from these kind of employers. Considering their "priorities" I will question their motives and purpose for being so prudish on past tense actions. They should be looking at the schooling and the training you have accomplished. And if they are really exeptional employers, they would also spend money to send their nurses to achool to improve their nurses skill and knowledge.....this is where the attention should be, and not the past lives of their employees!

[dnnc52]

With all the response to this issue. I have just really realize how much again as being a nurse we have sacraficed in the way of freedom. we lost are freeedom of expression, as in the nurse expressing feelings about an inmate a few weeks ago on facebook and she got fired. Freedom of the press, in fact the press don't want any skinny on the negative side of hospitals and healthcare, except the political end of it. I begining to feel like nursing is a hostile enviroment. Does not seem like very many nurse feel their employment is seccure, or is it just the way I'm looking at it? also in the news there is some politican who posed for a magazine when he was younger and he still got elected. But perhaps there is a double standard for the people who are running out country?

[teiladay]

I've been an LPN in PA for the last four years. Prior to getting my license though, I did some modeling for a company, some of it nude but tasteful(no, not Media). I work with someone that used to model for the same company as well, and we're both curious if the board of nursing can and will revoke our licenses if they're found. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I love being a nurse and I can't see myself doing anything else.

License? No. Job possibilities? Unfortunately, Yes, because you have a lot of businesses that are unwilling and or unable to separate your personal business from what is required of you at work. If I ran a hospital, I couldn't care less what you did in you private life, and would be far more concerned about your professional skills/knowledge. If you have to give me an epidural, I care about how well you can do your job, and how proficient and consistent you are, as well as your knowledge base! I wouldn't care one bit if you modeled nude for Maxim, glamour, or super Media magazine on the weekend... Just be darn good at putting that sharp ended thing in my back!

Do not be fooled.. There are many ways to find your photos on the Internet without knowing or using your name (many professional photographers do it regularly to protect their copyright, etc.). A potential employer just uses a photograph of you, and software will dig up every photo of you on the Internet.. Even photographs where you're looking somewhat away from the camera. Old technology actually, that has been used for years.. Highly accurate. Fortunately for many people, most employers have never heard of such professional software.

Copyright... A photographer or entity owns the right to those photos, so although you can ask for them to be removed and or destroyed/deleted, you wouldn't have a legal leg to stand on in any state. At least one poster here is misinformed.. Let me be perfectly clear, unless you took the photo, you generally do not have the rights to that photo, even if you paid to have them taken at the mall, etc.

I will reiterate: Generally speaking, you, nor your attorney, or any court in the land, has the legal power to have a nude photo removed from ANY web site as long as that photograph was posted legally and mandatory reporting laws, (18 U.S.C. 2257/ if applicable) etc., followed.

I do a lot of photography, and have shot many nurses, law students, etc.. I encourage those doing any type of modeling (which has put many students through nursing school) to do so under another name, and to keep your personal business under cover.

Only use the typical social media sites for general conversation etc... And only converse using a pseudonym when doing anything that can be perceived as even remotely non-goodie two shoes by the most conservative people you can imagine. Doing such keeps you out of the crosshairs, and eliminates future worries.

From what you've presented thus far... I wouldn't worry, nor bring it up again.

Best in all that you do and in all of your future endeavors

Teila K. Day