The Board of Registered Nursing sometimes pursues discipline against nurses whose incompetence gravely threatens the health and welfare of the California public. At other times, they pursue discipline against nurses like our client, who was placed on probation in 2016, but failed to realize she was on probation for the first two weeks. Instead of working out the problem and attempting to discern why the mistake took place, the Board elected to file a Petition to Revoke Probation against the licensee and attempt take her out of the workplace altogether. Despite several settlement offers, we persisted in our defense of the client, insisting that anything other than a two-week extension of probation (to account for the first two weeks that she acknowledged missing) would be unacceptable.

After an administrative hearing, the Petition was dismissed altogether, and our client remains on track to finish probation and resume advancing in her RN career. The value of experience coupled with a willingness to advocate on behalf or our clients led to this successful result.