The board of nurse registration and nursing education has the power to deny, revoke, or suspend any license to practice nursing; to provide for a nondisciplinary alternative only in situations involving alcohol or drug abuse; or to discipline a licensee upon proof that the person is: (1) Guilty of fraud or deceit in procuring or attempting to procure a license to practice nursing; (2) Guilty of a crime of gross immorality; (3) Unfit or incompetent by reason of negligence or habits; (4) Habitually intemperate or is addicted to the use of habit-forming drugs; (5) Mentally incompetent; (6) Guilty of unprofessional conduct that includes, but is not limited to, all of the above and also: (i) Abandonment of a patient; (ii) Willfully making and filing false reports or records in the practice of nursing; (iii) Willful omission to file or record nursing records and reports required by law; (iv) Failure to furnish appropriate details of a client’s nursing needs to succeeding nurses legally qualified to provide continuing nursing services to a client; (v) Willful disregard of standards of nursing practice and failure to maintain standards ent’s nursing needs to succeeding nurses legally qualified to provide continuing nursing services to a client; (v) Willful disregard of standards of nursing practice and failure to maintain standards established by the nursing profession; or (7) Guilty of and willfully or repeatedly violating any of the provisions of this chapter and/or rule or regulation adopted pursuant to this chapter. History of Section.P.L. 1982, ch. 328, § 2; P.L. 1995, ch. 43, § 1.
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