This time it is Your State Board of Nursing, Friend or Foe. It is in December 2002 on page 48. The author talks about a case where a nurse recieved a very sever punishment for what sounded like trumped up charges over very mild infractions. You don't find out till the end of the article that the case happened quite sometime ago when you read that the nurse involved has a whole new career going at this point. I think the primary intent of the article was to instill fear and terror into my heart thus making work for lawyers. It teaches a bit but does so in such a heavy handed way that it will only serve to drive people out of the profession at an accelerated rate. It neglects to mention that the chances of coming up on charges like these are about one in a hundred thousand. Also, I think by now nursing boards are so over whelmed with chemically dependant nurses that the chances of them taking a license away for minor infractions are remote. I have to say that if this case is true and I wonder if it is, the people on this board have very poor judgement. The really come accross as a bunch of old grannies. I think a warning in stead of supension would have been enough. The conditions under which the nurse eventually loses her license are outrageous. If I read this article before I became a nurse I would have been totally discouraged. Said it before and will say it again. I will not be renewing this magazine.