Avoid Malpractice and Protect Your License: Self-Reporting to the Nursing Board (State of Nevada‪)‬

As a Nurse-Attorney, I have dedicated my practice to helping nurses and other healthcare providers learn how to avoid malpractice and protect their licenses. The majority of my legal practice involves representing nurses and other healthcare providers in defense of their professional licenses in response to board complaints filed against them. A common question is whether or not a nurse should "self-report" an incident to the Nevada State Board of Nursing ("NSBN"). It is important to remember that a Board's role is to protect the public, not healthcare providers. Any report made to a regulatory board will likely result in a "Notice of Complaint and Investigation" into the matter. An investigation will be conducted by the Board's staff in order to support the allegations presented and to see if any disciplinary action is warranted; not to prove the healthcare provider's innocence.