paging, FATAMERICAN...question to your response to RN license question

[redredcavalier9]

Dear Fatamerican,

You responded back in June to a post I have about my wife's DUI in PA and the effect it will have on her nurses license..here is what you wrote below. You wrote that the PA RN renewal now has the question about "probation without verdict", in which you state that is what ARD is. Well my wife just quit her job and got a new job in OHIO. Her PA license was just renewed before any of this happend so that will be good until 2010 if she chooses to renew..maybe not based on that new question. However, I cannot find the OHIO renewal application online....could you find out if that question exists on that renwal application? If not then she will probably not renew her PA license since she has no plans on returning to that stat anytime soon.

hey redredcavalier
if you hire an atty you might want him/her to send letters to the OH and PA nsg boards letting them know of your wife's DUI ARREST (not conviction). I know a nurse manager who always tells RNs that get DUIs to do that. He says A LOT of nurses get DUI. The nsg board is a civil entity free to define "conviction" however it pleases, as long as it applies its definition consistently without prejudice. In PA, the Nsg renewal form includes "probation without verdict" in its list of things it wants to know. That's ARD. Notifying them in advance will be little more than a hassle. Hiding this from the Board and lying on the renewal invites disciplinary action. If PA Nsg Board disciplines her, OH Board will act on it. Long hours, stressful work, lousy pay, and Big Brother expecting nurses to be girl scouts...... no wonder there's a nursing shortage. If OH BMV suspends her DL, you might be able to contest it. I don't know. I live in NJ. I got ARD in Phila - 60 day suspension, 12 month reporting probation. I did the CRN eval, didn't look good. I do the full D&A assessment in 3 weeks. My BAC was .16. My arrest was 335 days ago. I joined AA. Sober since the Wake Up Call. Anyway, if NJ DMV acts on my DL, I plan to hire an atty to contest it since I did not enter any plea and there will be no conviction.[/i]

[fatamerican]

Originally Posted by redredcavalier9

You responded back in June to a post I have about my wife's DUI in PA and the effect it will have on her nurses license..here is what you wrote below. You wrote that the PA RN renewal now has the question about "probation without verdict", in which you state that is what ARD is. Well my wife just quit her job and got a new job in OHIO. Her PA license was just renewed before any of this happend so that will be good until 2010 if she chooses to renew..maybe not based on that new question. However, I cannot find the OHIO renewal application online....could you find out if that question exists on that renwal application? If not then she will probably not renew her PA license since she has no plans on returning to that stat anytime soon.[/i]

I did a quick look for the Ohio renewal but only found this link:

[url]http://advocatefornurses.typepad.com/my2cents/2008/05/criminal-convic.html[/url]

Ohio might not pick up on it. PA almost definitely would so I don't blame her for letting it expire. Some states (like NJ - the Regulation State) are requiring all healthcare workers to be fingerprinted now. If Ohio does that, the arrest might get picked up, unless the arresting authority did not send the prints to the FBI. It's rediculous the way the nurses get hammered for a first offense DUI. Rediculous. She could make an anymous call to the State Board.