Nursing "students" have no rights, no protection ... but...

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Any nurse accused or accused and convicted of a crime has so many lawyers and agencies protecting them. Their crimes disappear... A lot. Or are kept very quiet. A nursing student has no rights no protection no one gives a ****. Excuse my language but for 4 years I've tried to find even more one single person, group, lawyer etc anyone pretty much that stood up FOR nursing students busting their own ass to learn how to save strangers. You all know it sure as hell ain't easy. So why in the hell can a nursing student be subjected to NEVER receiving a nursing license, when if she had got that DUI after she was licensed .... Here come TONS of people to defend her.

What about murder? No ADMN no need to email me I'm very well aware that's a serious accusation. Its fact. Google ***** ***** Lawrence county Tennessee. Plea of guilty she killed 2 people. A husband and wife. And pushed them into another car head on severely injuimh two college students. But no worries she received judicial diversion... 4 years probation and its completely wiped off her record. And don't y'all worry she's happily practicing at her one stop rapid blah blah clinic in Lawrenceburg Tennessee. And no no one contacted the nursing board. MY POINT IS DONT GET ON THIS THREAD WITH YOUR DUI IS WRONG SOAPBOX becaus that's not the point at all.

Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.
Students have options. They get dismissed from the nursing program? Well, most schools have other majors, even if the student has to give up on a large dream.
In addition, the proliferation of investor-owned schools means a dismissed student might even be able to find another nursing program to accept him/her.
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In addition, the proliferation of investor-owned schools means a dismissed student might even be able to find another nursing program to accept him/her.

Yes, but getting a BoN to allow licensure may not happen, each case individually judged. Not fair, but last time I looked, nothing in life was...

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.
Not fair, but last time I looked, nothing in life was...
Nope, nothing in this life of ours is fair, including nursing school.

'Fair' (a.k.a. 'fare') is the currency we give in exchange for the privilege of riding in someone else's plane, train or automobile. 'Fair' is not a term that applies to all of life's situations. The sooner people realize this, the better off they'll be.

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Why do lawyers jump to the aid of licensed nurses? Because said nurses (a) have resources and (b) have livelihoods that they're willing to expend said resources in order to save.

Nursing students? Yeah, not so much.

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Maybe the schools are quick to dismiss, and maybe the BON is quick to deny these students licensure so that they do not become nurses who need lawyers.

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It's difficult to establish responsibility in a person when they get a dui during nursing school. That is such a short period of time, and if you cannot behave during that time, how can you be trusted with a nursing license? I agree that it's horrid for nurses to do those things too, but most of them have established that they are responsible with patients lives on the floor. Again, if a student is committing crimes before they are ever responsible, why would we want to put patients at risk?

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I really do think the school did the student a favor because he or she may have faced difficulties getting a license. If at the very least, he or she may have had to be monitored and follow the drug rehab requirements which is probably a death sentence for a new nurse in an area with almost no new jobs. Some people have restrictions on their license from stuff years before they even applied to nursing school. There are some schools that will tell people it's up to them to make sure they can graduate.

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Any nurse accused or accused and convicted of a crime has so many lawyers and agencies protecting them. Their crimes disappear... A lot. Or are kept very quiet.

Just the first sentence of this post is so wrong that I feel I can safely ignore the rest of this frustrated rant. Sorry OP but lawyers and agencies are not protecting the nurse. The lawyers, sure they are. But that is only if the person hiring them paid what is probably a LOT of money for that protection. Even with a good lawyer there are no guarantees that whatever charge the lawyer is defending will go the way the nurse wants it to.

As for the agencies, well the only one that has any legal say in the nurses ability to practice is that states Board of Nursing and I don't care what state it is the BON is not there to protect the nurse. Their job is to protect the public by ensuring that the nurse is safe to practice.

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Agreed KBRN

Oh I know, when I read that I thought the same as you. Very bitter, and I'm gonna guess, more than a bit immature, also.

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Why would a "nursing organization" protect a nursing student? They are NOT nurses. NOT nurses in any way shape or form and are subject to the rules of the school they are attending. No nursing organization has any responsibility to a person who is NOT a nurse. Whether you have one day or 3 years of nursing school makes no difference..you are NOT a nurse. So bizarre. Heck why not say they should be protected by NPs? OR CRNAs? Asinine post.

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OP, what on earth are you talking about?

This!! I'm sitting here thinking "Dang those back to back 12 hour shifts did a number on my mind because I'm really lost here."

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