Lankheim v. Board of Registration in Nursing

Penelope Lankheim appeals from a decision of a single justice of this court affirming an order of the Board of Registration in Nursing (Massachusetts board) suspending Lankheim’s nursing license for five years. We affirm.

Background, a. Florida discipline. Lankheim received a registered nursing license in Florida in 1976. In 2003, pursuant to a complaint filed by the Florida Department of Health, an administrative law judge in Florida found that Lankheim had been dismissed from a graduate nursing program in Florida in part because she had failed a clinical course; that she falsely represented…