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Mandated Reporting of Sexual Misconduct Allegations against California Licensed Physicians by Healthcare Facilities
The Medical Board of California and other healthcare licensing boards hold licensed physicians and other healthcare licensees to an extremely high standard regarding sexual misconduct allegations. Every day physicians, and other healthcare licensees, who communicate with hundreds of patients each week, face …
In 2019, we represented a licensee of the Department of Insurance who had previously held a restricted license due to a criminal conviction. After the initial restrictions were lifted, the client was disciplined twice by FINRA, revoked in another state, and had an application denied in yet another state. The client failed to notify DOI…
Our office represented a registered nurse in 2019 who had suffered discipline from a registered nursing state agency outside of California. The allegations were that the nurse had admitted to a substance abuse dependency and was subject to five years of monitoring in the other state due to that admission. The California Board of Registered…
Editor’s Note: this article was written and posted on March 24, 2020, during the COVID-19 global pandemic. It reflects a state of affairs in California that changes hourly. The information contained may be out of date.
California continues to experience extremely high demand for nurses in critical care settings to response to the COVID-19 outbreak. …
California’s Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System, or C.U.R.E.S. (CURES) for short, is a prescription monitoring program aggregating DEA Schedule II, II and IV prescriptions. Maintained by the California Department of Justice and primarily used by physicians, podiatrists, dentists, physician assistants, optometrists, nurse practitioners, pharmacies and pharmacists, C.U.R.E.S. represents a massive, relatively…
The Board of Registered Nursing in California pursues discipline in almost every case where a Registered Nurse suffers a conviction for Driving Under the Influence. The Board is authorized to place a nurse on a minimum of three years’ probation for a single DUI, as the Board’s Recommended Guidelines for Disciplinary Orders and Conditions of…
Out-of-state discipline is a common basis for California license discipline, under the applicable statutes that allow the Board of Registered Nursing to seek collateral discipline against a licensee who is disciplined or censured by another state’s licensing entity (even when the licensing entity is not necessarily a nursing board). In this case, our client was…
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…
One of our registered nursing clients suffered a panic attack during an episode of post-partum depression. Her husband phoned the police to help deescalate the conflict, but it unfortunately led to her arrest on suspicion of domestic violence. Although the charges were dropped, our client was questioned by the Board, given employment releases to sign,…
Our registered nurse client was accused of physically assaulting a patient and verbally abusing him while on duty at the client’s hospital. The problem? The only evidence of the so-called “assault” came from the patient, who had a history of psychosis and whose complaint was authored by another RN. No other witnesses had anything negative…
