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The Consequences of DUI Convictions for Nurses: Understanding the Professional and Personal Impact

Every Nurse

Summary : A DUI conviction can have severe professional and personal consequences for nurses, including license sanctions, career jeopardy, legal penalties, and long-term personal impact. This process can be lengthy and stressful, often requiring the nurse to provide detailed explanations and documentation.

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Nurses Saddened by News of Nursing Diploma Scam  

Nurse.com

In Washington State, the commission identified 150 nurses with ties to the three Florida schools. Most of the nurses are still under investigation, but seven licenses have been rescinded so far. Twenty-four of the nurses were found to have legitimate licenses, said Meyer. How could they pass the NCLEX?

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The Critical Role of Charting in Nursing

Nurse.com

According to the American Nurses Association (ANA), clear and accurate documentation is essential for safe, quality, evidence-based nursing practice. This applies across settings, for registered and advanced practice nurses alike, according to ANA’s Principles for Nursing Documentation Guidance for Registered Nurses.

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Nursing Certification: Achieving Excellence and Professionalism

Daily Nurse

A 2021 Journal of Nursing Administration study states, “ Nurse specialty certification is ’a mechanism for validation or formal recognition by documenting individual nurses’ knowledge, skills, and abilities specific to their specialty’.

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Paramedics help alleviate ED staffing issues

American Nurse

These unlicensed persons have not completed nursing education programs or met other licensing requirements. In many instances, substitutions of unlicensed personnel for licensed nurses clearly violates state nurse practice acts. Read the full document at bit.ly/3RIu9TU.

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Can’t We Nurses All Get Along?

Minority Nurse

Several student nurses realize that their clinical instructor has it in for them, ignoring their requests for help during clinical rotations and harshly criticizing them in front of patients and peers. These statements are sadly true, and the problem is too well documented to ignore.

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On leaving and loving nursing

American Nurse

The 2022 National Nursing Workforce Study conducted by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) reported that an estimated 100,000 (to as many as 200,000) RNs and 34,000 licensed practical (LPNs) and vocational nurses left the workforce over the past 2 years. The reason? The pandemic. Can you imagine?