Nursing Law & Order
This blawg provides commentary on the legal, professional, ethical and clinical practice issues and trends facing nurses.
Author: LaTonia Denise Wright, R.N. is a home health R.N. with Interim Health Care in Cincinnati. She is also a practicing attorney and consultant. She also authors Nursinglawbandit.
Blawg Related Categories: Health Law • Labor & Employment • States • Ohio • Solo / Small Firm
Recent Posts from Nursing Law & Order
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State Nursing Board Complaints and Nurses: It Can Happen to Anyone
Even the best nurses who are expert practitioners can be reported to the State Nursing Board. Nursing Board complaints don't just happen to "bad nurses" or nurses with a drug addiction. You can go to…
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More Nurses Will Look to the Internet and Web 2.0 for Solutions to Legal Issues
I am reading the End of Lawyers by Richard Susskind. http://www.susskind.com/endoflawyers.html This is a very thought provoking book and an excellent read. I am reading this book this month as I map out for law…
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Center for American Nurses November 2009 Newsletter
See http://www.can.affiniscape.com/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=278.
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I Appeared before the Board without counsel and signed a Nursing Board Agreement without counsel: What Can I Do Now?
I spoke with a nurse today who was upset that she wasn't told that she could have had attorney representation before the Board. 1. Why didn't the State Nursing Board tell me I could have…
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Conflict Management: Past, Present, and Future legal webinar
https://m360.centerforamericannurses.org/event.aspx?eventID=11011
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Ohio Board of Nursing Meeting: November 18-20, 2009 (Rules Hearing November 18, 2009)
See http://www.nursing.ohio.gov/Upcoming.htm.
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Would You Surrender Your Nursing License? RN to the End
Would you surrender your nursing license? Have you surrendered your nursing license? If so, why? My motto is "RN to the end" but I am questioning under what circumstances would I be willing to surrender…
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Free Webinar: Retirement Planning for Busy Nurses
My 401K with the American Bar Association took a hit last year and I thought well I guess I will work until I die. Its looking a little better now and so is my IRA.…
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KY and IN Licensed Nurses: Please Renew Your Nursing License TODAY!
The deadline for renewal is October 31, 2009. But guess what, the 31st falls on a Saturday and State Nursing Board offices are closed on Saturday. If you wait until the 31st, when will your…
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Patient Safety and Medical Liability Reform
See http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/FACT-SHEET-Patient-Safety-and-Medical-Liability-Reform-Demonstration/. Where does nursing fit into this equation? What do you think?