Nurses are responsible for the well-being of the health care client and, as such, nurses must display both personal and professional integrity.  Certain behaviors have been identified as being out of the realm of this integrity; consequently, the following crimes are automatic bars to licensure for applicants who enter a pre-licensure nursing program after June 1, 2003:

• Aggravated Murder
• Murder
• Voluntary Manslaughter
• Felonious Assault
• Kidnapping
• Rape
• Agravated Robbery
• Aggravated Burglary
• Sexual Battery
• Gross Sexual Imposition
• Aggravated Arson

Further the Board may propose to deny an application for the following:

• Any felony
• A crime involving gross immorality or moral turpitude
• A misdemeanor drug law violation
• A misdemeanor committed in the course of practice.