Nursing License Defense

If a letter from the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN) arrives in the post, it may bring bad news. If there is an accusation inside, you could face losing your nursing license. You need to stay calm and avoid errors that could harm your defense. These are...

Nursing is one of the professions where you must be at your best while working. If you are a shop worker, office worker or teacher, having a bad day is unlikely to put someone’s life at risk in the same way as it could for you as a nurse. Yet the way the health care...

As a registered California nurse, you probably know colleagues or former colleagues who have had to defend their licenses in front of the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN). Some may have been successful; some may have failed. When discussing these cases,...

Being a registered nurse in California is not easy at the moment. The state has had a shortage of nurses for some time, which has worsened this year. Combined with the stress, strain and risk for any working nurse in the current situation, and, understandably, many...

It has been a tough year for nurses. You have probably been working extra shifts and giving up time off to cover colleagues who have fallen ill. Being called to a hearing by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN) would make your year far worse. These are...

As a nurse, it is your obligation to provide a certain standard of care to your patients. Regardless of whether you work in a hospital, in a nursing home or in the homes of patients who require hospice care, you have to adhere to certain standards regarding the care...

You can absolutely lose your driver’s license if you get a DUI in California, but what if you’re worried that it may go farther than that? For instance, say you have spent the last 10 years working as a nurse. Could you lose your nursing license, as well? Is this...

The media often portrays nurses as sexy and saucy. It may seem odd when you know the reality is sore feet and varicose veins, but the image persists and can create problems when working as a nurse. A high percentage of nurses have experienced sexual harassment at...

In most lines of work, if you do something wrong, or are not good enough at your job, you might get fired. However, there is usually nothing to stop you from heading out and finding another job doing the same thing. Things are different for nurses. You depend upon...

Nursing is not for the faint-hearted. There are times you will feel helpless as people suffer and die in front of you. You will have to make urgent decisions on not enough sleep, and sometimes you will get them wrong. Then to top it all, you will have to deal with...