The Pennsylvania State Board of Nursing revoked the license of a practical nurse in western Pennsylvania and assessed a $2,000 civil penalty. The action appears in the board's monthly listing of disciplinary and corrective measures published by the Department of State.
The stated basis combines several grounds: unprofessional conduct, misappropriation of drugs, presenting an immediate and clear danger to public health and safety, and conviction of crimes. The pairing of drug misappropriation with criminal convictions points to a parallel criminal case that preceded or accompanied the board action.
The published entry does not describe how the conduct was detected, name an employer or practice setting, or identify the drugs involved. Board summaries of this era carry the sanction and the statutory grounds without an investigative narrative.
What changed for this licensee is the most severe outcome available to the board. Revocation ends the license outright, in contrast to the suspensions and stayed suspensions with probation that appear elsewhere in the same monthly list.