The Oregon State Board of Nursing proposed new rules that would require nurses to be vaccinated as a condition for being licensed. Similarly, the Quebec Order of Nurses announced that their nurses must be vaccinated or face suspension of their medical licenses. I can understand if your employer requires you to be vaccinated as that gives you the choice to either work for them or not. Besides, you can always get another job elsewhere. Nevertheless, to take away all your choices to … [Read more...]
Nursing License Scam
Last year I wrote a couple of blogs about scams taking place against nurses in Idaho and Missouri. Well, now it’s hitting closer to home and is reaching into Indiana. The office of the Indiana Attorney General has received numerous complaints of nurses receiving calls from scammers posing as FBI agents telling them that their licenses are suspended and will not be lifted until a fine of thousands of dollars is paid. The thieves ordered that the money be wired to them as a government … [Read more...]
Nurses Required to Participate Against Religious Objections
The United States Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the University of Vermont Medical Center (UVM Medical Center) for forcing their pro-life nurses to participate in abortions. Even if a nurse expressed a religious objection to assisting in a sterilization or an abortion, the UVM Medical Center still assigned them to the procedures. However, the Biden Administration then recently withdrew the case and asked that the investigation be terminated. There was no reason given why this … [Read more...]
Do Peer Assistance Programs Support Nursing?
In a recent article on MedPage Today the question is asked, “Are peer assistance programs defective and harmful to nurses”? The article specifically discussed recent issues regarding the recovery and monitoring program (“RAMP”) in New Jersey. RAMP discussed how nurses cannot work during the intake process, which can take up to 90 days, after which a decision is made when a nurse can return to work. It also discussed how costly RAMP is in that those nurses must pay a monitoring fee as … [Read more...]
RADONDA VAUGHT LOSES HER LICENCE
As we have been following the story of RaDonda Vaught for some time, we’ve learned that she had her hearing before the Tennessee Board of Nursing. She made a medication error causing death. Ms. Vaught did the right thing by admitting to the error and taking responsibility for it but she also pointed out contributing factors from Vanderbilt such as the computer system linking to the medication cabinet was slow and nurses were told via email to override the safeguards so they could get … [Read more...]
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