(1) A nurse licensed pursuant to section 12-255-110 or 12-255-114 may request that the board place his or her license on inactive status. The request shall be made in the form and manner designated by the board.
A nurse requesting inactive license status shall provide an affidavit or other document required by the board certifying that, immediately upon the conferral of inactive status, the nurse shall not practice nursing in the state unless and until the nurse's license is reactivated pursuant to subsection (6) of this section.
Upon receiving the documentation pursuant to subsection (2) of this section, theboard shall approve a request for inactive license status. However, the board may deny the request if the board has probable cause to believe that the requesting nurse has committed any of the acts set forth in section 12-255-120.
A license on inactive status shall constitute a single state license issued by Coloradoand without multistate licensure privilege pursuant to part 38 of article 60 of title 24.
A nurse with a license on inactive status is not authorized to practice nursing inColorado. Any nurse practicing nursing while his or her license is inactive shall be subject to disciplinary action pursuant to section 12-255-119 and criminal penalties pursuant to section 12255-125.
(a) A nurse with a license on inactive status who wishes to resume the practice of nursing shall file an application in the form and manner designated by the board and pay the license reactivation fees established pursuant to section 12-255-107. The board shall reactivate such license unless subsection (6)(b) of this section applies.
(b) The board shall deny an application for reactivation of an inactive license:
Pursuant to section 12-255-121; or
If the board determines that the nurse requesting reactivation has not actively practiced nursing in another state for the two-year period immediately preceding the filing of the request for reactivation or has not otherwise demonstrated continued competency to return to the active practice of nursing in a manner approved by the board.
Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1351, § 1, effective October 1.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-38-118.5 as it existed prior to 2019. 12-255-123. Immunity in professional review. (1) If a professional review committee is established pursuant to section 12-255-108 to investigate the quality of care being given by a person licensed pursuant to this part 1, the professional review committee must include in its membership at least three persons licensed in the same category as the licensee under review, but the committee may be authorized to act only by the board.
(2) In addition to the persons specified in section 12-20-402, any member of a professional review committee authorized by the board, any member of the committee's staff, any person acting as a witness or consultant to the committee, any witness testifying in a proceeding authorized under this part 1, and any person who lodges a complaint pursuant to this part 1 is granted the same immunity and is subject to the same conditions for immunity as specified in section 12-20-402.
Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1352, § 1, effective October 1. L. 2020: Entire section amended, (HB 20-1183), ch. 157, p. 683, § 21, effective July 1.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-38-121 as it existed prior to 2019.