Discipline of Nurses Woefully Inadequate According to LA Times Expose

The LA Times reports today that the states' systems for disciplining nurses is broken. Among other things, it allows nurses whose care (or lack of care) may have killed or injured patients in one state to practice in another state without fear of discipline. Moreover, some states' disciplinary processes are beset by long delays. Public Citizen has for years ranked the states' systems for disciplining doctors. But nurses provide much of the care that patients receive in hospitals. Worth reading.