Report of Regents Professional Practice Executive Session Committee to The Board of Regents

Your Professional Practice Committee held its scheduled meeting on July 22, 2013.  All Committee members were present, except for Vice-Chancellor Anthony S. Bottar and Regent Wade S. Norwood, who were excused. Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch was also present, but did not vote on any case or action.

ACTION ITEMS

Professional Discipline Cases

Your Committee recommends upon the recommendation of the Committee on the Professions, that 31 consent order applications and 4 surrender applications be granted.

These recommendations are made following the review of 35 cases involving eight licensed practical nurses, eight registered professional nurses, four licensed practical nurses who are also registered professional nurses, one architect, one certified public accountant, one clinical laboratory technologist, one massage therapist, one occupational therapist, one pharmacist, one physical therapist assistant, one professional engineer, one registered professional nurse who is also a nurse practitioner, and one veterinary technician.

Restorations

Voted that the execution of the Order of Surrender of the licensed practical nurse license of Felecia Thomas be stayed, that she be placed on probation for a period of one year under the terms and conditions annexed to the Report of the Committee on the Professions, and that, upon successful completion of probation, her license be fully restored.

MOTION FOR ACTION BY FULL BOARD

Madam Chancellor and Colleagues: Your Professional Practice Committee recommends, and we move, that the Board of Regents act affirmatively upon each recommendation in the written report of the Committee's deliberations at its meeting on July 22, 2013, copies of which have been distributed to each Regent.