Nurses in California kept Licenses

The state's Board of Registered Nursing has discovered that 3,5000 nurses have been punished for misconduct by other states, yet have maintained their licenses in the state of California. As many as 2,000 of these nurses will now face discipline in California. This is a perfect example of how important it is to run proper background checks on all your household help in all states where the individual has lived in the last 7 years. In the case of the nurses, most of the misconduct found was for the same incident.Before hiring any private nurse, you must check the "national databank". In California, until late 2008, the state did not require nurses to reveal whether they had been disciplined elsewhere. The risks of not checking can be serious. Here is the interesting part: "California has a financial incentive not to submit names its names. The state makes money by charging nurses a fee to verify their licenses, test scores and training when authorities in other states call for information. These sort of checks have netted California nearly $1 million in fiscal 2009".