What does it mean to have "Lack of Good Moral Character"? when you're license is revoked

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I'm looking at Michigan's Licensing and Regulatory website trying to see what people lose their licenses for, etc. and one of them that comes up often is "lack of good moral character". Sometimes its listed with drug diversion, sometimes not.... is it for someone that lies on their charting?

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What it means is largely up to the Board of Nursing ...

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Specializes in ER.

It means you had sex outside of the sanctity of marriage. You also had negative thoughts about someone in power. You kicked your dog three times, and picked your nose while driving. Additionally, you made politically incorrect comments and were disrespectful to the joint commission.

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Specializes in school nurse.
It means you had sex outside of the sanctity of marriage. You also had negative thoughts about someone in power. You kicked your dog three times, and picked your nose while driving. Additionally, you made politically incorrect comments and were disrespectful to the joint commission.

...and you ate young nurses.

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You failed to return in ten minutes every time you made that promise to a patient.

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Adding to everything above, you fail to tell the difference between "your" and "you're"

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Specializes in SICU, trauma, neuro.

I'm not in MI, and don't remember seeing anything about "moral character" on my state's BON site. Nearly all of the revocations last I checked were r/t abuse of pts (physical, sexual, financial), felony convictions (the ones that stick out were statutory rape, financial exploitation of her elderly mother, and theft), forging Rx's with a stolen DEA #. Several drug related ones too, AFTER the nurse failed to comply with the monitoring program -- the revocation wasn't the first thing to happen.

Nothing about their side job as a cam girl, or about a super-secret garden in the basement. ;)

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Specializes in UR/PA, Hematology/Oncology, Med Surg, Psych.
It means you had sex outside of the sanctity of marriage. You also had negative thoughts about someone in power. You kicked your dog three times, and picked your nose while driving. Additionally, you made politically incorrect comments and were disrespectful to the joint commission.

Crap, I've done most of these except kick the dog and I usually just hide from Joint Commission. Guess my license is down the tubes.

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Sorry about the your and you're. I was tired :)

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

Cam modeling

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Specializes in Psych, Addictions, SOL (Student of Life).
What it means is largely up to the Board of Nursing ...

This is correct as it is largely up to interpretation. However most the Nurse Practice Acts for most states specifically mention "Committing or engaging in acts of moral turpitude" as grounds for license revocation.

Acts or moral turpitude include criminal acts of intentional "evil"

Here is an article that kind of explains it.

Moral Turpitude: When Nurses Do Things That Are Intentionally Evil - Articles Archive - Nursing Jobs, RN Jobs, Career Advice at Working Nurse

Hppy

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Specializes in Pediatric Critical Care.
This is correct as it is largely up to interpretation. However most the Nurse Practice Acts for most states specifically mention "Committing or engaging in acts of moral turpitude" as grounds for license revocation.

Acts or moral turpitude include criminal acts of intentional "evil"

Here is an article that kind of explains it.

Moral Turpitude: When Nurses Do Things That Are Intentionally Evil - Articles Archive - Nursing Jobs, RN Jobs, Career Advice at Working Nurse

Hppy

Sticky thing about Michigan...I don't believe that it specifically has a "Nurse Practice Act"

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