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License Losers – Ignorance is Bliss!

 
There are many, many reasons why licensing bodies reprimand, penalize, and/or suspend/revoke licenses. Some reasons, it might be said, fall under the category of a professional believing that "ignorance is bliss."
• "[Name] … is duly licensed as a registered nurse in the state of [State] … During the weekend of [Date], [Name] failed to distribute thirty-nine (39) a.m. medications and nineteen (19) p.m. medications resulting in a total of fifty-eight (58) medication errors. … [Name] falsified the medication administration sheets to reflect that the medications were given to residents. The facility reported that when questioned about the incidents, [Name] appeared not to understand the seriousness of her actions and did not respond appropriately to address, defend or explain her actions."
• "While employed and on duty as a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA), licensee admitted to the charges of administering 2,000 times the recommended dose of a narcotic anesthetic to each of three patients because he was unfamiliar with the drug, and after being suspended from his employment as a CRNA at one hospital, he falsely answered "no" to questions on an employment application for another hospital that asked, respectively, whether his clinical privileges had ever been suspended and whether he had ever had a limitation or reduction of clinical privileges. In addition, after the aforesaid suspension, he falsely answered "no" to a question on his [State] nursing registration renewal application which asked whether, since he last registered, any hospital or licensed facility had restricted or terminated his professional employment or privileges."

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

–Johann von Goethe

 

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