What are common complaints filed against nursing licenses?
- Diversion of prescription narcotic medications from the workplace.
- Failure to follow wasting procedures for narcotic medications.
- Overuse/multiple prescriptions for prescribed narcotic medication.
- Mental health issues that affect work performance.
- Physical health issues that affect work performance.
- Conviction of a criminal offense (assault, drunk driving, fraud, etc.).
- Neglect of clients or patients.
- Departure from minimal standards of acceptable prevailing medical practice.
- Failure to meet patient record documentation standards.
- Failure to fully assess a patient or client's needs.
- Fraudulent billing.
- Exposure of privileged communications.
- False advertising.
- Violating professional boundaries with a patient or client, including sexual conduct.
- Failure to pay student loans secured by the state or federal government.
- Being fired from a job for cause.
- Dismissal from the Health Professionals Services Program (HPSP) for failure to comply with your participation agreement.
- Practicing beyond your licensed scope of practice.