NPDB report

Are you in a monitoring program yet?

No not yet 

I got a notification around the time my consent order was docketed & complete. When I login to the NPDB it has my violation, probation & consent order.

Listen very Carefully!! I am in the NPDB and it's critical for you to pay attention to this. I spoke with a nurse attorney on guidance with how to respond to the NPDB. There is no "format," for how to respond, but here it was you need to do.

1. Respond! Go to the website and Respond within the timeframe given. You only have so many days, so write up your response on a Microsoft Word document, check spelling and grammar, then cut and paste into the NPDB site.

2. Important!!! Think about 5 or 10 years from now. You are basically addressing the response to FUTURE POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS!!!  A snappy or sarcastic or response denying what happened WILL NOT HELP you! You are already in trouble with the BON and have to complete your consent order and there is no getting out of it. The BON doesn't not care what you write in your NPDB response and you are going in the NPDB. You are in. There is no avoiding it since you received the letter. Therefore, a sarcastic response or response minimizing what you did will HURT YOU. It will not hurt the BON or your monitoring program. It will HURT YOU because a future employer 10 years from now will see what you wrote.

3. The NPDB is for life. You do not get removed from it after your consent order ends. It's impossible. Long after your consent order ends, let's say we are 10 years down the road from today and you find the perfect job that is 5 states away and a beautiful home in that town and the job is Perfect and alcohol or drugs and the monitoring program is long behind you and in the past for over 5 years. You want that job. Every Healthcare employer that hires nurses checks the NPDB. At least, all hospitals and surgery centers do. They will see your response.

4. What do they want to see? They don't want denial or anger or bitterness or sarcasm or resentment. They want.

A. Honesty. Do Not deny or minimize or blame!

B. What have you done recovery wise? For example, you could write, "I'm addressing this response to "All potential future employers." "I don't deny the allegations. I made a bad choice, but since then, I have made great choices and changed my life with recovery."" I don't just attend recovery, but recovery is my life. I regularly attend AA, NA, Cel. Recovery. Meetings weekly and maintain sobriety and I help others and bring them into recovery." "For any future employers that may be reading this NPDB entry many years down the road from the time of this writing which is Jan 13, 2026, I will have completed my consent order likely by the time you read this and I will have many, many years in recovery which I maintain, and I simply ask you for a chance."" I made a mistake, but I corrected the mistake, paid the necessary and deserved penalty, and today I am better for it and so are other people as I continue to bring them into recovery and help them." "Thank You."

Do you see how your response needs to be? A future employer 10 years from now isn't interested about how Nursey Jones and you argued and she ratted you out, or you debating over the amount of Pixis pulls, or you minimizing or stating how you shouldn't be in the NPDB, or that you don't think you were really an alcoholic, or how the SUD evaluator said you did not have an SUD, but the BON put you in a monitoring program anyway. DO NOT DO THIS kind of response!

Hope the above helps. The above is how my attorney told me to respond and.....It Worked. I've landed basically any job I wanted years later due to honesty, not minimizing or blaming, and most important, Adressing the Letter to Future employers.

What's weird is the that the report has old probation info on it- nothing new so I don't understand why they sent it 

mississippiRN71 said:

What's weird is the that the report has old probation info on it- nothing new so I don't understand why they sent it 

I don't know why they sent it, but for the love of God, do not write in your response, "I'm not sure why they sent this." Again, there is NO Arguing with the NPDB. Once you are in........regardless of the reason (rightly or wrongly) as to why, it doesn't matter, you are IN. The time for debate as to WHY has to occur with the BON. The NPDB has no human on the other end "that decides, or calls or makes a judgement." You can ask the BON as to the WHY they sent it, but make sure not to write in your response any hint or suggestion that sounds argumentative. Again, your response should be directed to Future Employers Who Might Be Reading This ten-years from now.

I'm on the npdb database that affected my dental assistant license I was on PTI but just gotten off I can reinstate my dental assistant license and expunge my record I hired a lawyer on a situation I was in while I was a CNA and now I had to surrender my license  but the main thing that's holding me back employers Turning my application away while license is active with disciplinary action and being placed on npdb I'm not even a nurse or hygientist yet I wonder should I still pursue it?

When I got into trouble when I was a NP, I was licensed in 5 states as an NP. I got in trouble in one state, which is where I worked and lived, and the other 4 states took action based on me getting into trouble in my home state (which is normal). What did I end up with? 5 NPDB entries and all 5 related to one single event.

After completion of my monitoring program at 5 years and my license restored and unencumbered and proven 5 years of completion of a monitoring program, I had 4 jobs over the the next 5 years AFTER monitoring was over. I applied for 5 jobs during my 5 years AFTER monitoring was completed and I got 4 of those 5 jobs. I was only turned down for 1 of the 5, even though Im in the NPDB.

The biggest mistake people make, in my opinion with the NPDB, is NOT answering......or by minimizing, blaming, not taking responsibility when they do respond to the NPDB entry. Again, I said this earlier. Your NPDB response statement WILL be seen and WILL be read by future employers 6, 7, 10, or 15 years from now. Its critical to respond to this letter and not minimize, or blame. If you have any questions on how to respond, a medical or nurse attorney is the way to go..

Common sense here.  If you are the Boss, the DON, or the Human Resources Risk Management Chief and are making a decision about hiring a nurse with a recovery background, what do you want to see? Would you want to see a nurse who is in the NPDB that offered no response to the NPDB entry, or a nurse that minimized or blamed in their response, or a nurse who didn't complete a recovery program? Common sense here folks. What you would want to see is a letter taking responsibility and proof of your active recovery program completion and ongoing recovery.

That's good you still hold a job were on disciplinary action I'm just want to see if it's worth going to dental HYGIENTIST and LPN school I got dental assistant agency that I'm still hired by but can't do anything since my license is suspended without getting off PTI which is coming any day from the courts and license reinstatement I love what I do I made a mistake but we all human and learn I been so depress I go through my up and down moments Im thinking should I still do but listening to your story give me hope I only have one report from board of dentistry soon it will turn to revision in action so definitely I will add a comment on my NPDB report