FELONS LOOKING AFTER GRANDMA No background checks on nurse's aides By BOB PORT and THOMAS ZAMBITO DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS More than 450 criminals, many with convictions for violent assaults ...

Nurses in California must renew their licenses every two years. Advertisement. ... “We have always supported background checks on healthcare workers,” said Jill Furillo, ...

Nurse practitioner Stacy Burgess, a Flint native, said the inspiration came from years of watching patients suffer avoidable ...

Over the weekend the Los Angeles Times, working with ProPublica, reported that in California alone, dozens of nurses with felony convictions still have valid nursing licenses. Some of those ...

Background checks are one, but not the only, piece of the patient safety puzzle. The Nursing Licensure Compact system can put patients at risk when states sometimes endorse nurses to practice in their ...

The Colorado Nurses Association hopes criminal background checks will become part of the state’s practice act for nursing, which is up for renewal in 2017, said M. Colleen Caspar, the ...

California regulators have announced plans to begin an investigation of the criminal backgrounds of all registered nurses in the state, following a newspaper report suggesting that dozens of nurses.

ANNAPOLIS — A law that took effect this year requiring federal criminal background checks for Maryland nurses has created delays in licensing health care workers, even as the state suffers a ...

Although its unclear whether or how Steele passed a background check, authorities in the South Carolina case said Steele allegedly used a State of Georgia Board of Nursing license number belonging ...

Nurse practitioners -- who build on their registered nurse backgrounds with advanced education, certification and skills training -- are licensed to practice independently.