New MiraCosta College program will help lower-level nurses 'step up'. North County Times (Escondido, CA) (3/31/2006)
...vocational nurses per year to...degree and a license as a registered nurse. To be eligible...vocational nurse working in...vocational nurses to step up...show that California ranks 49th...of 5.75 ...

California Governor Announces Plan to Recruit, Train Nurses. Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) (1/24/2002)
...hospitals so nurse assistants...vocational nurses can become registered nurses where...officials and nurses. "California is in the...most serious nurse shortage in...264,000 license ...

A non-punitive approach for impaired nurses: Calif. program balances treatment, monitoring. Addiction Professional (11/1/2005)
...and boards of registered nursing permanently revoked the licenses of impaired nurses...State Boards of Registered Nursing to establish...awareness among nurses and the general...resolution, the California Board of ...

Nurse's relationship with pt. results in disciplinary action: case on point: Tapp v. Board of Registered Nursing, 2002 WL 31820206 P.2d -CA. (Nursing Law Case on Point). Nursing Law's Regan Report (1/1/2003)
...the hospital, she and Nurse Tapp began having sexual...disciplinary proceedings against Nurse Tapp for, "acts of...recommended that the nurse's license be revoked, the revocation...The Court of Appeal of California affirmed the judgment...

California Adds to List of Professional Licenses Renewable Online. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (9/1/2001)
...Sep. 1--California's eBusiness...professional license renewal system...as well as registered nurses. The three...January, only registered nurses were...renew their licenses online. This...expanded to ...

Hemet, Calif., Hospital Technicians, Licenses Vocational Nurses Unionize.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News) Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (9/22/2000)
...licensed vocational nurses at Hemet Valley...after unionized registered nurses conducted...previous disputes with registered nurses, hospital...pay its bills. Registered nurses represented by the ...

New National Database Streamlines License Verification Process for Nurses.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News) Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (1/8/2001)
...7--When registered nurse Pat Kauchick...Oklahoma and California -- but where his nursing licenses had expired...temporary nursing license expired...State Board of Nurse Examiners...said. Nursing license ...

Nursing Shortage Could Become Worse in Indiana. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (5/28/2002)
...he is the nurse in charge...gasping for nurses and aging...system, which licenses 39,000 registered nurses, is...Arizona, California and Florida...Indiana State Nurses Association...average age of a ...

Registered nurse pre-licensure education in California.(Statistical Data Included) Nursing Economics (5/1/2002)
...for all prospective nurses. Moreover, these problems...programs; if a prospective nurse is admitted, she...best for prospective nurses, or for public policy...based diploma program in California closed in the mid 1990s...to the physician." ...