RAFFERTY v. ST. BD. of NURSE EXAMINERS

No. 106 C.D. 1982.

80 Pa.Commw. 603 (1984)

Ann Marie Rafferty, Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, State Board of Nurse Examiners, Respondent.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

March 6, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel L. Thistle, Beasley, Hewson, Casey, Colleran, Erbstein & Thistle, for petitioner.

Mary S. Wyatte, Assistant Counsel, Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs, with her David F. Phifer, Chief Counsel, Department of State, for respondent.

Argued June 6, 1983, before President Judge CRUMLISH, JR. and Judges DOYLE and BARBIERI, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY PRESIDENT JUDGE CRUMLISH, JR., March 6, 1984:

Ann Marie Rafferty petitions for review of a State Board of Nurse Examiners order revoking her license. We reverse.

While Nurse Rafferty was on duty in the Neuro-Intensive Care Unit of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, a comatose patient under her care died.1 She was charged with violations of various Board regulations...

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