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Registered Nurse Receives a Citation and Fine From BRN For a DUI Conviction with a .13% BAC

By Jennifer Coalson | Aug 29, 2014

DUI Conviction Registered Nurse Receives a Citation and Fine From BRN For a DUI Conviction with a .13% BAC If this is the first article that youโ€™ve come across regarding a Citation and Fine for a DUI conviction from the CA Board of Registered Nursing, you may not understand the magnitude of this article. However, …

New โ€œUnprofessional Conductโ€ Regulations For BRN

By Jennifer Coalson | Aug 6, 2014

New โ€œUnprofessional Conductโ€ Regulations For BRN Investigations and Conviction Disclosures On July, 23rd 2014 new regulations went into effect expanding the ways California RNโ€™s can be accused of Unprofessional Conduct. The first is failure to provide requested documents within 15 days (or the time specified), the second is failure to participate in a BRN or …

What to Expect

By Jennifer Coalson | Jul 24, 2014

Immediate Suspension of a RN License at a Criminal Trial? What Happened to Due Process? I received a call from a California Registered Nurse the other day who had received something out of the ordinary from the Board of Registered Nursing. The document the RN received was titled: NOTICE OF APPEARANCE AND RECOMMENDATION BY STATE …

How We Handle the Letter of Investigation from the BRN

By Jennifer Coalson | Apr 7, 2014

How We Handle the Letter of Investigation from the BRN or the Department of Consumer Affairs Regarding Your RN License. Letโ€™s look at the alternative if you decide to have representation during the Investigative Interview process: (To see how this process goes without an attorney, click hereย ) You open your mailbox and there is a …

What to Do If Youโ€™ve Received a Letter of Investigation from the BRN

By Jennifer Coalson | Apr 7, 2014

What to Do If Youโ€™ve Received a Letter of Investigation from the BRN or the Department of Consumer Affairs Regarding Your RN License. Let me just put this out there right away: DO NOT CALL THEM BACK OR SCHEDULE THE INTERVIEW without calling us first. Hereโ€™s why: Nurses as whole are the kindest group of …

The Diversion Program Pros and Cons

By Jennifer Coalson | Feb 6, 2014

The Conundrum Caused by Board of Registered Nursing RNโ€™s Diversion Program Letterย : Solving the Diversion Mystery By: Jennifer Coalson-Perez, Executive Director RN Guardian, Mystery-Solver Extraordinaire How does a California Registered Nurse make an informed decision regarding whether or not to enter the BRNโ€™s Diversion program if it doesnโ€™t sound like it is even an option? …

The Real BRN License Discipline Numbers

By Jennifer Coalson | Dec 9, 2013

The Real BRN License Discipline Numbers Who is likely to get in trouble and for what? The California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN) publishes a list of their annual discipline cases in every meeting agenda, so you can find out the real numbers of BRN License Discipline cases that actually occur, who is the most …

How Can the BRN Deny a Student RN a License Based on a Prior DUI?

By Jennifer Coalson | Oct 24, 2013

How Can the BRN Deny a Student RN a License Based on a Prior DUI? While the majority of the calls RN Guardian receives are from nurses who have been arrested or convicted of a DUI, we also receive a high volume of calls from student nurses concerned about how a DUI will impact their …

The BRN is On a Witch Hunt for Nurses Dealing with Depression or Anxiety

By Jennifer Coalson | Oct 3, 2013

The BRN is On a Witch Hunt for Nurses Dealing with Depression or Anxiety Sorry California Nurses, its Official: Youโ€™re No Longer Allowed to Have Feeling   Every so often I take a phone call from a nurse that gets me so fired up I start making phone calls looking for a group to help …