Chancery Court Overturns Tennessee Board of Nursing Discipline
Chancellor Ellen Lyle of Davidson County Chancery Court reversed the disciplinary actions order by the Tennessee Board of Nursing against my client, a Tennessee registered nurse (referred to hereafter as “the RN”). Chancellor Lyle’s decision, which was issued July 24, 2015, overturned the Board of Nursing’s Amended Order, issued pursuant a hearing before the Board of Nursing last August 2014. Chancellor Lyle’s decision, which can be found in its entirety here, reversed the Board of Nursing’s suspension of the RN’s license based on the Board’s finding that the RN was addicted to drugs or alcohol to the degree of interfering with nursing duties, and that she was unfit, incompetent, and/or unprofessional due to the use or removal of drugs from the hospital where she worked. In her reversal, Chancellor Lyle found that the only statutory violation supported by the record was that the RN was unprofessional for having in her […]
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