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Old 08-01-2014, 05:40 AM
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Originally Posted by theorem painter View Post
I have never had much confidence in boards that police their own members. Doctors seem to protect fellow doctors, like lawyers protect fellow lawyers leaving victims with little recourse.
This may be true for some professions, but I can tell you from 36 years working as an R.N. this is not the case with the nursing profession. I have witnessed many a colleague have their licenses suspended, a few permanently revoked, and one nurse I worked with served time after being convicted of stealing liquid morphine from a hospice patient. BTW, it was another nurse who witnessed the theft of the morphine, reported it, and her testimony at the trial led to the conviction.