Public health nursing
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Public health nursing · Mar 2019
Crossing the line: Sexual misconduct by nurses reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank.
The objective of this study was to examine nurse sexual-misconduct-related reports in the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) and to compare them with reports for other types of offenses. ⋯ Very few nurses have been reported to the NPDB due to sexual misconduct. We welcome a zero-tolerance standard against sexual misconduct involving patients by all types of health care professionals, including nurses.