What actions give you a discipline type on your license?

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I'm a new grad and I just started my first nursing job on a med-surg floor. I was working as a CNA at a long-term care facility before this. An incident that I'm not fully knowledgeable happened right before I left, a few people had gotten fired. I was being nosy and I searched one name on the board of nursing website and I saw she has many disciplinary actions on her license all the way from 2011. There are conditional, suspension, and stipulation to cease practicing nursing discipline types. I'm just curious what she could have done to have so many, so that I can prevent my license ever having a discipline type. What are the most common things nurses do to give them those disciplines on their license?

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I'm just curious what she could have done to have so many, so that I can prevent my license ever having a discipline type.

Nursing boards are responsible for seeing that the publice is safe from nurse misconduct. To avoid discipline, read the nurse practice act for your state and stick to it. In addition, don't steal (especially drugs) or come to work impaired, or lie (falsify records) or abuse or abandon your patients.

In other words, practice safely, ethically and responsibly and be a decent human being. You should be fine.

More specifically, here are the grounds for discipline in your state of Minnesota, conveniently located on the same site you found the actions against the nurse you looked up and where you'll find the NPA.

Minnesota Legislature - Office of the Revisor of Statutes

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Specializes in Emergency Department.
What are the most common things nurses do to give them those disciplines on their license?

This will get you struck off every time;

Niels Hogel: German ex-nurse admits killing 1

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Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.

Practicing outside of your scope of practice is the fastest way to get yourself in trouble with a BON.

So is patient abandonment, diversion, working while impaired, criminal activity, and failing to report criminal charges.

What WILL NOT get you into trouble with a BON despite what employers may threaten you with: quitting without any notice, refusing an assignment, refusing to work overtime, refusing to work additional shifts. If there was no nurse-patient relationship established, then the BON considers it an employment matter and stays out of it.

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Specializes in Medsurg/ICU, Mental Health, Home Health.

The vast majority of actions in my state involve controlled substances. This includes diversion, intoxication and/or recreational use of non-prescribed substances, forging scripts, count errors or charting errors involving said substances.

Another one is not having enough CEUs, but claiming you have them and then being picked for an audit. It's probably the least severe disciplinary action but it still counts.

Lying on an application about criminal or substance history, or if you've had discipline in another state is one as well.

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Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.
Lying on an application about criminal or substance history, or if you've had discipline in another state is one as well.

I forgot about lying. BONs really hate it when nurses lie about things. It doesn't matter if it's a big thing or something that the nurse considers to be trivial. It doesn't matter if it was an intentional lie, a lie of omission, or accidental/honest mistake. They really don't like it when they find out that a nurse hasn't been honest with them.

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