State lawmakers are calling for an investigation of the Minnesota Board of Nursing’s disciplinary practices, saying more desires to be finished to defend patients from possibly unsafe doctors. The head of the council committee that oversees authorising boards, Kathy Sheran, DFL-Mankato, said she will seek an review of the board and a legislative hearing to analyze the board’s activities. “We need to work out … that the method of reconsidering complaints creates an outcome that guarantees public security to the best of our ability,” she said Friday. “How can we strengthen it? How can we do it better?” The call for inspection follows a Star Tribune report Oct. 6 that the Nursing Board has forgiven or tolerated misconduct in Minnesota that would end careers in other states, founded on a reconsider of more than 1,000 disciplinary activities taken since 2010. Since that time, the newspaper discovered that the board has dynamically permitted more than 260 ...