Can you tutor nursing students if you surrendered your license?

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Specializes in Psychiatric/Correctional Nursing.

I’m currently an RN, and had looked into possibly tutoring local nursing students on the side via the site called Heytutor. I was checking out to see if there was anyone else from my area tutoring as well, and a profile came up for a nurse I knew that had voluntarily surrendered her RN/LVN licenses a few years ago. I was just confused after reading her bio, because she states she has been a nurse for 20 years, but is now currently retired. She went on to list NCLEX preparation and nursing as subjects she provides tutoring for, among others. The issue that bothered me was that this particular nurse had voluntarily surrendered her licenses in the midst of an investigation by the BON. The formal complaint was she had been notified a patient was having abdominal pain and she did not come to assess him until 3 hours later. The patient was later taken to the hospital and died there. The complaint also alleges this nurse did not have the proper equipment on her person and did not auscultate as she documented she had done. It just really rubs me the wrong way that her bio is intentionally deceptive  , and she would actually be paid to tutor for nursing related subjects. Maybe she did what she was accused of, and maybe she didn’t, but I personally wouldn’t want to pay someone to tutor me on a subject when it’s questionable they are even still qualified to do so. Is it even legal to do this? 

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