Inappropriate relationship leads to professional misconduct charge.(NURSING COUNCIL) Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (9/1/2005)
...has been found guilty of professional misconduct. In its June 2005 decision, the Nursing Council found the RN guilty...amounted to professional misconduct of a serious nature...Zealand Gazette, Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand ...

The burden of proof should remain cast iron. (Editorial).(for nursing professional misconduct cases)(Brief Article)(Editorial) Nursing Standard (1/15/2003)
THE NURSING and Midwifery Council...of proof requirement in professional conduct cases. If the...practitioners who come before misconduct panels, it could also...the power to take away a professional's livelihood and while...

Staff shortages contribute to nursing misconduct.(News) The Mercury (South Africa) (8/21/2009)
...setting up and maintaining nursing education and practice...condone any form of misconduct, the cases should be...Acting Registrar of the nursing council, Sizeni Mchunu...had investigated 66 misconduct cases in KZN from 2003...said the council's ...

Punching a client in the face constitutes professional misconduct.(the case of the nurse Ido Funcke) Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (5/1/2005)
...he has undertaken professional education in the area...details of other health professionals, institutions or...Funcke appealed the Nursing Council finding and...2004, upheld the Nursing Council's finding...conduct amounted to professional ...

Burden of proof: the NMC wants to reduce the standard of proof required in misconduct cases, but what would this mean for nurses? (analysis).(discussion of objectives of Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)) Nursing Standard (1/29/2003)
...says independent nursing consultant Tom...tight that some misconduct hearings scheduled...Unison head of professional development Paul Chapman fears the nursing profession is pushing...standard of proof for misconduct hearings. The...

Stabb loses High Court appeal.(NEWS)(misconduct cases of Brian Staff and Nursing Council)(Brief article) Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (11/1/2006)
...against the finding of the Nursing Council last November of professional misconduct has been dismissed. Justice...decision to strike him from the nursing register for a year. Stabb...Stabb released to Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand last month ...

Nursing home chaplain accused of sexual misconduct.(News) Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) (6/3/2002)
...Leaders of a Wheeling nursing home said Sunday...allegations of sexual misconduct leveled against...engaged in sexual misconduct with two minors...s independent professional review board...working at the nursing home in 1993...of the alleged ...

Professional conduct review decisions.(Melanie Jane Chiasson, nursing registration revoked by Nurses Association of New Brunswick )(Brief article) Info Nursing (5/1/2007)
...incapable and unsafe to practise nursing. Furthermore, the review...that the member demonstrated professional misconduct in her nursing practice. The review committee...prohibited from practicing nursing or representing herself as...

Three-part register wins support in consultation; Nursing and Midwifery Council will discuss direct entry and misconduct hearings at its first meeting of 2003. (news). Nursing Standard (1/15/2003)
...consultation exercise by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC...too long.' She said health professionals such as therapists, who are...will stand alongside those of nursing and midwifery, which have...profession that was separate from nursing,' it said. ...