Ohio fares well in tracking dangerous nurses, report shows

COLUMBUS, Ohio - While some states have failed to adequately report disciplinary actions against health professionals to a federal database, Ohio is one of 18 that do that and more by providing both free online license verification and free disciplinary documents online, a report by a public interest group says.

In a report by ProPublica, a Web site dedicated to journalism in the pubic interest, that analyzed the different processes states use to investigate and discipline nurses, which ones allow the public to verify a nurse's license or provide Web access to disciplinary documents, Ohio earned high marks for using technology to both inform the public and give it access to public records related to Ohio's approximately 230,000 licensed nurses, and the hundreds who every two months find themselves guilty of one violation or another of state law or administrative rules...