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September 28, 2020Posts

When Your Licensing Board Makes a Request for Confidential Information

When a Texas licensing board, commission, or agency takes up an investigation of a complaint against your license, it can be a rattling experience. This is often by design. The less sure of your footing you are, the more you’re likely to let slip. But even knowing this can be a double-edged sword. Because it’s common for the boards to request confidential information. Particularly where professionals are bound to particular duties of confidentiality in their...

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September 26, 2020Posts

What Should a Texas CPA Do If Convicted of a Crime?

Certified public accountants in Texas who find themselves up against the possibility of losing their license for any reason are right to be nervous. But this may be particularly true for those CPAs who have been charged with a criminal act. Conviction of a certain number of criminal offenses are subject to serious disciplinary action by the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy. This goes up to and includes the full revocation of licensure. No...

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September 25, 2020Nursing License Defense,Posts

Options Available to Nurses Concerned About Substance Abuse

They say the best defense is a good offense—and where it comes to protecting your Texas Nursing License from disciplinary or revocation due to substance abuse, this is certainly true. When you begin to suspect you have an issue with abusing substances, it is always best to get out ahead of the problem. Texas nurses are fortunate in that the Texas Nurses Association has established a program to aid them in their struggle. The Texas...

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September 24, 2020Posts

Respiratory Care Practitioner License Defense

The fear of losing their license has kept many Texas physicians from seeking help with problems of substance abuse. This remains the case, even despite the increased awareness in society about the details of the issue, which has also resulted in a decreasing of the stigma once attached to it. We all know about the opioid problem that has swept our nation, and we are all aware of alcohol’s pernicious effect on the lives of...

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September 23, 2020Posts

When Your Respiratory Care Practitioner License is Under Investigation

Respiratory care practitioners provide a vital service to the people of Texas—literally. You all have come to the forefront of Texan minds in recent days, given the scourge of COVID-19 and the tremendous amount of destruction it causes to the lungs. But there’s no question this situation has put Respiratory Care Practitioners under strain, and the sheer number of patients that you have been forced to deal with is almost certain to result in a...

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September 22, 2020Posts

Fighting to Save Your Texas Optometry License

As an optometrist, you studied hard to gain the knowledge and skill to diagnose and treat the most fundamental of senses for human beings. You care about what you do, and Texans are the better for it. So, it can be a real blow when someone files a formal complaint against your license. But though you know you did not do anything warranting such a complaint, you need to take the complaint seriously if you...

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September 21, 2020Posts

When a Realtor is Accused of Crossing Professional Boundaries

Every real estate agent in Texas is expected to establish and maintain professional boundaries with the people they contract with in order to protect both their clients and them. The number of possible boundary issues that may confront a real estate agent are numerous. Behavior and communication toward their clients are areas of paramount importance in the real estate industry and can be complicated when a realtor has pre-existing business, personal, or other relationships with...

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September 20, 2020Posts

How to Improve the Chance Your Licensing Board Investigation Will End Without Discipline

Receiving notice of a complaint against your license is something about which most professionals have nightmares from time to time. So when it happens in waking life, it is understandable that you may be upset and likely to fear the worst. Unfortunately, this is not a state of mind in which people tend to make their best decisions. Often professionals will either ignore the complaint (either believing it to be without merit, or simply avoiding...

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September 19, 2020Posts

When the Investigator of Your Professional License Complaint Wants to Meet With You

Any Texas professional who goes under investigation by their licensing board or agency would rightly become nervous that their occupational reputation, career, and livelihood has come under fire. A complaint against a professional’s license is a serious matter, after all. And the formal investigation that follows notification of the complaint is the stage at which the rubber hits the road. Often the investigator will reach out with an attempt to gain information from you personally....

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May 25, 2020Posts

When a Texas Psychologist is Accused of Failing the Standard of Care

Those who practice psychology in the state of Texas have pursued their vocation through multiple hurdles over the course of many years. These highly-qualified individuals are vital to the mental health of our communities, as they aid people going through some of life’s most difficult challenges. It is therefore imperative that a licensed Psychologist do whatever they can to follow the standard of care inherent to the profession in order to avoid any risk of...

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