To arrive at the statistical findings for this story, reporters checked the names of California's 350,000 registered nurses against a public, online version of a database run by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing. That database, Nursys, includes reports from nearly three-fourth of states on disciplinary actions and the status of nurses' licenses.
The public version of Nursys, available at www.nursys.com, does not include RN disciplinary data from Alabama, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Washington and West Virginia.
