Nurses from other states sometimes take travel assignments at facilities across California, especially since the demand for nurses has risen sharply due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the California Board of Registered Nursing retains the ability to discipline the California BRN license for nurses even when they are disciplined for conduct outside of California against
other state discipline
Case Dismissed After Hearing: Accusation Against RN for Out of State Discipline
By Fredrick Ray on
Posted in California Nurse Licensing, Case Results
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…
Discipline of California Licensees Due to Other State Discipline
By Fredrick Ray on
Posted in Professional License Law
California licensees can face license discipline or denial not only for allegations of wrongdoing or criminal convictions, but also due to prior discipline of licenses held in other states. Although this can happen among any of the professions, the most common professions where other state discipline impacts a California license are physicians and nurses. It…