I was wondering if anyone could help or offer some advice. I graduated from nursing school on May 2008. I did a work-at-home job online in 2007. Where you processed invoices, stuff envelopes etc....I was paid with travelers checks. I cashed them at the post office and the bank each time they had work for me.  $3000.00 was the total amount. I only did it for a month before finding out they where counterfeit.  A year later meaning March of 2008 i was inditied on possession of counterfeit securties.  I had no idea the cheques where counterfeit.  I know you can't have a felony. It would have been stupid for me to jeapodize my education. So, before anyone says otherwise. I am aware of this. I am now in the process of waiting to see what the outcome will be from the nursing board. Has anybody had any felonies that knows what the outcome may be? Thanks for your help, and God Bless!

Every state is different regarding what constitutes a 'felony,' and also in the licensure requirements for nurses.

In some states a disqualifying conviction must be a felony of a certain type, such as "involving moral turpitude."

Have you been convicted, or just indicted? If not convicted yet, the prosecutor might plea the charge down to a lesser offense (which might be only a misdemeanor), especially if your record is otherwise clean.

I'll try to check it out further. Your Board of Nursing will know more about what constitutes a disqualifying offense.

OMG I am so glad to have found this site. I am an RN with a felony, and I have been employed ever since the conviction for posession of a controlled sub. I have a disease, and thank GOD my BON recognizes this. There is action against my license. But as long as I continue to excel in the nurse's monitoring program I belong to, I will retain my license. It is a five year program, and I feel it is a blessing. The positions I have been offered are not positions I would ahve ever considered before getting into trouble(my background is in ED), but they have kept food on my table.

I would love to ask LawyerRN a question, however, and I pray he is still on this site. One of those jobs I referenced was bad bad bad, and the doc, I assume, thought he could get away with being a crook and that I would turn a blind eye. What he failed to recognize is that 12 Step Programs tend to render a person better than before, and I had to advocate for patient care. I reported him to the DOH, and he has retaliated.

Lawyer RN, are you still out there?

Thank you...