Title: Prelicensure Nursing Student With Substance Misuse History
Abstract: A young male combat medic with a history of substance misuse, including driving under the influence charges, was accepted into a bachelor’s degree nursing program. The student’s ultimate decision to complete the application process and the school’s decision to admit the student was reached after a thorough discussion with the program director about the possible impact of criminal charges during the educational process and after graduation. During his education, the student was denied access to one clinical site and experienced a delay in licensure after graduation. The advocacy provided by the school of nursing during these processes was critical for this student’s successful entry into the nursing profession. A young male combat medic with a history of substance misuse, including driving under the influence charges, was accepted into a bachelor’s degree nursing program. The student’s ultimate decision to complete the application process and the school’s decision to admit the student was reached after a thorough discussion with the program director about the possible impact of criminal charges during the educational process and after graduation. During his education, the student was denied access to one clinical site and experienced a delay in licensure after graduation. The advocacy provided by the school of nursing during these processes was critical for this student’s successful entry into the nursing profession. Mitzi Averette, MSN, RN, CNE, CHSE, is the Simulation Director and Assistant Professor of Nursing, Nursing Program, Methodist University, Fayetteville, North Carolina. Conflict of Interest Compliance Article 6Journal of Nursing Regulation Vol. 12Issue 2PreviewAs is standard in scholarly publishing, NCSBN’s Journal of Nursing Regulation (JNR) requires its authors to disclose any potential conflicts of interest (COI). Although COI information has always been collected by our staff in order to support editors’ review of the paper, it was not our standard practice to publish COI statements in each article. In this issue, JNR is retrospectively publishing the COI statements, which were collected with the below papers at submission, in order to make potential COI’s transparent to readers, as well as editors. Full-Text PDF