Calif. nurses must get fingerprint check

By ABC7
The California Nursing Board approved the new regulations following an L.A. Times investigation that revealed that dozens of state nurses had maintained their licenses after being convicted of crimes.

Some 146,000 nurses were licensed before 1990, the year when the board began requiring new nurses to provide fingerprints.


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