Terminating probation process with MBON

The process should be outlined in the consent order that put your friend on probation. Most consent orders say, "After a certain time (such as Dec 2026 or 24 months) the nurse must apply to remove the stipulations and have the license placed back in an unencumbered status." That can be as simple as an email to the Compliance Manager at the BON which makes the request official. My consent order in Kansas said I had to apply with a notarized written letter mailed to the BON with supporting documentation regarding why I felt the stipulations should be removed and the license placed back into unencumbered status. The answer to your question depends on the state, but more important, the nurses specific consent order. Nearly all consent orders will have a written paragraph towards the end of it on how to end the process such as an email, sometimes a simple phonecall, sometimes a notarized formal letter that has to be mailed to the BON.

Also, some state BONs end the process right there and they review it at compliance office and you get a letter in the mail within a week or 2 saying license is now unencumbered. Some states require your packet go in front of the BON for review at their meetings. Georgia does this. The Georgia Board meets once every 2 months, so in Georgia, a nurse could be finished with their timeline or "sentence," but then they have to wait for the BON to meet which could be 2 months later and the nurse is still checking in and drug testing during that 2 month timeframe waiting for the BON to meet and clear her. Thats a BON money making trick. If you can basically get an extra 2 months out of every nurse in monitoring, you are making thousands of dollars over the long haul after hundreds of nurses for decades and decades run over by 2 months, which goes in the BONs pockets.

In Kansas, I had to send proof of why I felt monitoring should be over, and how I was safe to the public, and why I should be in an unencumbered status. In my letter I wrote to them, I said my proof rests in the 5 year monitoring program that shares the same building with you and is attached to you and speaks with you daily. My proof is that the monitoring program never contacted you for the last 5 years for me having a violation, so that means I did well in the monitoring program of which you, the BON, are well aware of the monitoring program requirements because you work with them. I told them I thought the "proof" has already come over the last 5 years with each and every day and week of mandatory meetings, checks ins, therapy, and drug testing, of which you already have in your hands. I asked them what more is there to "prove." They sent me a letter in the mail 1 week letter clearing me and placing my license back to normal.