Posted on 06/27/2010 10:58:29 PM PDT by Nachum
The discovery by the state's Board of Registered Nursing was prompted by a Times/ProPublica investigation last year that found instances in which California nurses had been sanctioned elsewhere.
The state's Board of Registered Nursing has discovered that some 3,500 of its nurses have been punished for misconduct by other states — hundreds even had their licenses revoked — while maintaining clean licenses in California.
As many as 2,000 of these nurses now will face discipline in California, officials estimate. That's more registered nurses than the state has sanctioned in the last four years combined.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Off Topic - I’m on company travel and had to see a doctor last week. I contacted my insurance to find an ‘in network’ doctor, and they gave me several names. I went down a list of about 10 doctors, and none were seeing new patients. Finally found one but, is anyone else experiencing this? This is not Medicare, it’s private insurance, but these doctors are just not taking new patients. Is this the Obamacare fallout or a California thing ???
It’s nothing new.
welcome to the healthcare crisis, not enough doctors and nurses and too many patients and lawyers.
Unions.
Nurses are punished. Period.
Long hours, backbreaking work, Low pay for life/death situations.
Often treated like dogs by doctors, patients and patient’s families.
Would be illegal nurses tending to illegal inhabitants. Welcome to California.
It was found that many who had their certifications revoked in other states were allowed to keep their Kalifornia POST Certification intact.
Actually I meant it was nothing new that doctors aren’t seeing new patients.
California and 12 other states (representing 40% of U.S. nurses) do not participate in the national database for disciplined nurses. Instead, they use the credentialing process as a revenue center when other states submit inquiries; by charging a hefty per-case inquiry fee. On the flip side, California refrains from submitting a similar fee to other state boards of nursing, thus failing to perform due diligence in the credentialing process.
Didn’t realize the extent of a broken nurse credentialing process. Sickening.
24 States form a nursing compact in which the nurse’s license from his/her home State confers the ability to practice in each of the other. Rather than having to get a new license in each State, the nurse can work in any of the compact States based on their home State licensure.
What this also does is ensure that any sanction within any compact State is represented across the compact.
marked for later
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