Troubled Nurses Skip from State to State Under Compact

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by Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein (7-15-10 ProPublica)

"Nurse Craig Peske was fired from a hospital in Wausau, WI. in 2007 after stealing the powerful painkiller Dilaudid 'whenever the opportunity arose' state records say..."

http://www.propublica.org/article/troubled-nurses-skip-from-state-to-state-under-compact

You can use the ProPublica Reporting Recipe in your state by clicking onto the appropriate link in the article above or on their homepage.
http://www.propublica.org/

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1. Nurses are bad.

:wtf:

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6. Nurses are the new teachers,,,, pass it on. nt

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2. God. I wasn't even aware there was a multi-state compact. Glad my

state isn't part of it.

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3. It's mostly for traveling nurses. If a nurse actually moves to a different state, he or she

has to obtain a license in that state. What they SHOULD do is keep a central database among all participating compact states and require reporting of any disciplinary actions against nurses regardless of home state--how hard can it be to set up such a database?

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7. State Fail to Report Disciplined Caregivers to Federal Database

by Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein (7-19-10 ProPublica)

"Hundreds of state agencies nationwide have never told the federal government about health care professionals they disciplined, undermining a central database meant to weed out dangerous caregivers."
http://www.propublica.org/article/states-fail-to-report-disciplined-caregivers-to-federal-database

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8. There are bad folks in every profession

Unfortunately, they aren't caught until they do something bad.
I hold a compact license and have never done anything bad.
Thousands and thousands of nurses also hold them and never do anything bad.
There are always going to be a handful of bad apples out there.
That being said.
I think there should be ONE licensing entity for the entire country instead of state by state.
But that is a completely different subject.

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12. Most Howe workers moved to other facilities by Joel Hood and Kristen Schorsch (7-26-10 Chicago

Tribune)

Despite accusations of neglect, improper care that led state to shutter center, many still care for developmentally disabled
http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/ct-met-0726-howe-employees-20100726,0,1292314.story

How's it going with your neighborhood's caregivers DU, of course the majority are motivated ethical professionals-does anyone have a story about these criminals or is using Pro Publica's recipe to check out someone/something locally?

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