1. Putting professional
- Author
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Healy P and Skyte S
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Professional conduct ,Interview ,business.industry ,Occupational prestige ,Poison control ,General Medicine ,Public relations ,Social issues ,Nursing standard ,Task (project management) ,Work (electrical) ,Nursing ,book.journal ,business ,Psychology ,book - Abstract
This paper examines the restoration process of a nurses registration after having been convicted of rape. The article also explains how and why people who have been struck off the register can be restored to the UK Central Council (UKCC). The legal procedures governing restoration allow anyone to apply for reinstatement to the register. The process is certainly as rigorous as the professional conduct process. The applicant should pass a statement supporting his or her restoration including details of their work and personal and employment references. A date is set for hearing and a panel is established comprising of three to five Council members including a consumer representative. At the hearing the panel questions the applicant for restoration seeking good reasons why he or she should be restored to the register. The interviewing panel takes into account any recommendations from the previous panel which originally removed the person. The decision to restore or not is made in camera and the applicant is informed of the decision. If the application is rejected the panel might give advice on what the individual has to do before seeking restoration the second time. The panel shall base the decision for restoration from the Nursing Standard which specifies that the UKCC professional conduct committee panels have an unenviable task. The public and the nursing profession must have confidence in the process and that is why the UKCC has embarked on a fundamental and urgent review of its restoration procedures.
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- 1996