What would cause a nurse to lose his/her license?

[centralflorida]

Pre-nursing student here....I'm asking the above question because I keep seeing people mention, on various threads, that they refuse to work on a floor where there are too many patients per nurse, because they don't want to risk losing their license - I assume because they feel they would end up providing sub-quality care.

Now, I can imagine the logical things which would cause people to lose their license...getting arrested for a felony, showing up to work high, stealing from patients, stealing drugs from a facility, being generally incompetent (although I can't imagine too many incompetent nurses would make it through grueling nursing school and NCLEX exam...) but why would being on a floor with too many patients be the nurse's fault?

[labrador4122, RN]

And here in Florida, you had better put your protest into writting. Your facility is going to hang you out to dry if anything happens. And so will the BON.

Woody:balloons:

thanks for that. I live in FL. I know we have the BON site in myflorida.com but will you please send me the link to the one where there are all the rules of what we can and can't to legally as RNs

I am a new grad, and there are alot of things that people don't teach you in orientation.

thanks again!