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New research in AJN shows link between nurse's criminal history and professional misconduct
Date:3/3/2009

n 40, 49% recidivated, while 34% of those who were 40 years old or older.

Protecting the public from incompetent or otherwise unsafe nursing practice is a responsibility of state boards of nursing. Boards of nursing can place nurses who have committed practice-related violations on probation, limiting their practice to particular settings or placing them under certain conditions for a specified time. The state boards also aim to help nurses who have been disciplined return to nursing practice through remediation.

While the number and percentage of nurses sanctioned by state boards of nursing has risen in the last decade, there have been few nationwide studies about the characteristics of nurses who have been disciplined, outcomes of remediation or the putative risk factors for violation and recidivism.

In 2006, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN), working with six state nursing boards, (Arizona, Marlyand, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska and North Carolina) initiated an exploratory study to evaluate the characteristics of nurses who had been disciplined and the factors that might affect the outcomes of remediation.

A 29-item questionnaire was used to investigate the records of 207 RNs, LPNs, and advanced practice RNs (APRNs) who were disciplined and put on probation by a state nursing board in 2001 as well as to collect data on their employment settings, the boards' actions and remediation outcomes (the presence or absence of recidivism); 491 nurses who had not been disciplined served as controls.

Among the disciplined nurses studied, 57% were RNs, 36% were LPNs, 3% held both RN and LPN licenses and 3% were APRNs. Data on history of criminal conviction prior to state board disciplinary action were available for 112 (54%) of the 207 nurses. Among those 112, 35% (n=39) had a history of criminal conviction, whereas only 3% of the control group reported one.

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