Causes and Results. For gross incompetency, violation Majority of full For incompetency, dishonesty, immorality, or unprofessional conduct. Board. Majority vote of whole Board. Governor upon recommendation of Board revokes. Thirty days. Majority. Full and fair investigation. Nurse to be heard personally or represented by counsel. Witnesses to be sworn by president or secretary of Board. Name to be stricken from roll and Secretary of State to be notified. For sufficient cause; Board is authorized to furnish list to Boards of other states upon request. Hearing before full Board. Charges to be made by licensed physician or registered nurse. For dishonesty, gross incompetency, habit rendering nurse unfit, acts derogatory to profession, or wilful fraud or misrepresentation in securing certificate. Nurse may appear in person or be represented by counsel. Name to be stricken from roll. County clerk, where certificate is recorded, to be notified, who shall note revocation upon records. For sufficient cause. Give full and fair hearing. For sufficient cause. Give a hearing. For dishonesty, gross incompetency, habit rendering nurse unfit, conduct derogatory to morals or standing of profession, or wilful fraud or misrepresentation in procuring certificate. May appear in person or be represented by counsel. Any who attempt to practice as registered are subject to penalties under violation. Mississippi Montana Oklahoma Tennessee Texas Virginia Wyoming These laws make it unlawful either to assume title, indicate to be, or practice as trained, graduate, or registered nurse, without a license from the controlling Board. Colorado Iowa1 COMPULSORY LAWS (Continued) These laws make it unlawful either to assume title, indicate to be' or practice as trained or graduate, in addition to registered nurse' without a license from the controlling Board. RECORDING CERTIFICATES Arkansas: With Clerk of County where nurse resides. Idaho: With Clerk of County where nurse resides. Illinois: Within ninety days; with Clerk of County where nurse resided when application was made. Indiana: With Clerk of Circuit Court of any County. Kansas: With Clerk of County where nurse resided when application was made; affidavit of identity necessary. Kentucky: With Clerk of County where nurse resided when application was made. Louisiana: With Clerk of County where nurse resides. Michigan: With Clerk of County where nurse resides. Missouri: With Clerk of County where nurse resides; in St. Louis with Recorder of Deeds and with an affidavit of identity; for non-resident of state: with Clerk of county where training-school is located and with Recorder of Deeds in St. Louis. Montana: Within thirty days; with Clerk of County where nurse resides, or in which nurse removes; no fee to be required. New Jersey: Within sixty days; with Clerk of County where nurse resided when application was made. New York: With Clerk of County where nurse resides; to be recorded every three years after January, 1906. North Carolina: By Clerk of Superior Court, who grants certificate upon presentation of license from Nurse Board. Oregon: Within thirty days; with Clerk of County where nurse resided when application was made. Tennessee: With Clerk of County Court of County where nurse resides. Vermont: Within sixty days; in office of Secretary of State; affidavit of identity necessary. Wisconsin: Within thirty days; with Clerk of County where nurse resided when application was made. Wyoming: Within ninety days; with Clerk of County where nurse resided when application was made. MISCELLANEOUS Alabama: Before a training-school can issue diplomas, its president and three lecturers or instructors, who shall be practising physicians, shall file a statement of their course with State Health Officer. If approved, a certificate shall be issued to the institution, which must be filed with the Probate Judge of the County where the institution is located. California: Defines an accredited training-school for nurses as one attached to, or operated in connection with, one or more hospitals giving a general training and a systematic, theoretical, and practical course covering three years. Connecticut: Applicant aggrieved by decision of the Nurse Board may within thirty days appeal to a Board composed of one member from the Connecticut Medical Society, one member from the Connecticut Homeopathic Medical Society, and one member from the Connecticut Eclectic Medical Society. This Board of appeal may affirm, modify, or reverse the decision appealed from, and its decision shall be final and binding upon all parties. First Board, appointed by Governor, is to hold office until the societies shall appoint their successors. 1 Owing to Amendment, law is not now compulsory. |