DELAWARE BD. OF NURSING v. FRANCIS

No. 69, 2018.

195 A.3d 467 (2018)

DELAWARE BOARD OF NURSING, Appellant, v. Christine Mulry FRANCIS and Angela L. Caldwell DeBenedictis, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: October 2, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carla A.K. Jarosz, Esquire , Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, Delaware, Counsel for Appellant.

Daniel A. Griffith, Esquire , Whiteford, Taylor & Preston LLC, Wilmington, Delaware, Counsel for Appellees.

Before STRINE, Chief Justice; SEITZ and TRAYNOR, Justices.


A Delaware statute provides that licensed nurses may be disciplined if they engage in "unprofessional conduct." The statute does not define "unprofessional conduct," so the Delaware Board of Nursing adopted a rule to flesh the term out. Under the Board's rule, "[n]urses whose behavior fails to conform to legal and accepted standards...

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