Professional License Defense Information Blog

Across the country, hospital systems are aggressively rolling out virtual nursing units to manage staffing shortages. In these hybrid nursing models, a single remote nurse oversees multiple bedside units via camera feeds. While...

If you are a nurse, you probably know the feeling of clocking in for your shift only to realize that something just does not feel right. You might face an impossible nurse-to-patient ratio, or a charge nurse might float you to a...

School nurses make high-stakes decisions every day, often with little time and incomplete information. When a student is struggling to breathe, showing signs of an overdose, or facing another medical emergency, waiting for a...

Home health nursing requires you to step directly into a patient’s personal life. Over months or years of weekly visits, a natural bond forms. When the holidays roll around, or when you mention your child is heading to...

It is a chaotic shift. An ICU patient is crashing, and you are one of the first to respond. You run to the cart to grab the meds and spring to the patient. The scanner fails to read, so you hit the system override and administer...

In a case that has shocked OKC’s medical community, 35-year-old registered nurse Christian Ismael Soto Retamosa of Oklahoma City pleaded guilty to exchanging child abuse videos with former South Carolina House of...

When you log into your Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system, you might see a patient’s vitals like height and weight right next to a three-digit number known as a Narx Score. The primary engine behind these scores...

Working as a nurse gives you the opportunity to not only provide medical care to patients, but also to offer comfort and ease patients’ anxiety while they grapple with health issues. You have the chance to build...

Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) quietly record far more than patient notes. Behind the scenes, they log timestamps, user IDs, and activity histories, and all of that information becomes valuable if you’re facing a...

Social media has become a powerful platform for medical professionals. Doctors, nurses, and other licensed medical practitioners can reach tens of thousands of followers on platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and X (formerly...

The hallway is loud. Call lights are flashing. A family is waiting for updates, and the computer you need is already logged in under someone else’s name. You glance at the screen, finish the task, and move on. No one says...

When the Minnesota Board of Nursing revoked Magdala Sims’ nursing license, saying that she’d purchased her education credentials, it gave her the option of applying for reinstatement. The catch? She’d have...

Patient safety is a key part of a nurse’s responsibilities. A nurse under the influence of drugs or alcohol is dangerous to patients. Unfortunately, Georgia’s current policies on substance abuse disadvantage nurses and...

An Ohio nurse lost his license after being convicted of patient endangerment while working as an in-home caregiver. The Ohio Board of Nursing revoked his LPN license earlier this month following the criminal case, a reminder of...

Not since the Vietnam War era has protesting become such a widespread off-time activity for the American masses. Pick your legitimate complaint, but know this: Certain protesting activities could attract scrutiny from the nursing...

As advocates for nurses whose ability to practice is threatened by disciplinary action, proportionality is an issue we encounter often. Many nurses are willing to admit their errors but unwilling to accept severe discipline for...

Connecticut nurses with degrees from Florida are under heightened scrutiny, as Operation Nightgale — a federal investigation into the sale of fraudulent nursing diplomas from Florida schools — continues to cast a shadow of...

A Toledo nurse has confessed that she used a stolen employee identification card to gain access to a ketamine clinic, where, she says, she stole five vials of the potent sedative. Ohio’s Board of Nursing offers a program for...

When a Florida nurse said in a video posted on TikTok that she hoped White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt would suffer a painful injury during childbirth, the state’s attorney general responded forcefully. Posting on...

When a middle school nurse in South Carolina appeared to be intoxicated at work, the principal tried to send her home. Instead of leaving, Pamela Miller McDill, who insisted she was sober, cursed and became belligerent. The county...