Can you get a job as a nurse if you marry a convicted felon or sex offender?

I have a friend who is in school to be a nurse and is engaged to a convicted felon/sex offender. She is wondering if she is able to become a nurse if she is married to him.

My husband has been a federal prisoner for 26 years. He was a biker back in the 70s and convicted on a cocaine charge that wouldn't get someone five years these days. It has not been an easy life for the family, but if he's ever released, we hope to have a quiet life.

However, a sex offender is the lowest of the low in prison, and that offense will follow your friend's husband the rest of THEIR lives. She cannot separate herself from his reputation. If you are married to a felon or ex-convict of any kind, people do not forget. With his history, she will be despised and scorned. That is a sad fact, for you also as her friend, and it's the truth.

Being legally married to a sex offender COULD impact her job. I know nurses with minor criminal records, married to felons, but it's that sex offender status that could ruin things for your friend. That's a whole new level of criminal, universally despised. What employer would trust her judgement, despite her own academic credentials? They would be rightfully concerned about him coming on the business property. And I hope she doesn't think she can keep it a secret these days.

Sex offenders are listed in data bases now, with their photos, names and addresses, and some in our community are required to have signs posted in their front yards. They are harassed and despised and have had their homes burned down. Can your friend live with this? Would she want to raise children in this environment? I think her job will be the least of her worries.

As a nurse, she must be a caring person, and perhaps she really thinks he will change for her. Statistics prove otherwise. It sounds like you have tried to counsel her, to no avail, and I am really sorry if she is your friend.

Good luck to you, and please pray for her. She's going to need it. Source(s): Wife of 26+ year federal prisoner

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Of course you are still eligible for a job. Unless she herself is a felon she will not be denied a job there.
i'd tell her to find a new boyfriend/ fiance. i'm thinking there'll be marital problems that she'd rather not get into. i don't know why she couldn't be a nurse though.
She is not the sex offender, so what is the problem? After all it is not "he" that is going to work as a nurse.
I don't think that getting married to a "criminal" makes you one too, I don't think your career is influenced by who you are married to, specially nursing.
Ok I think you need to tell you friend to get divorced from her sex offender husband. I dont think at all his personal doings are going to affect her. The only things it will effect is her friendships and the way people look at her for the rest of her life. And I know one thing I would never allow my kids over their house or even would I be comfortable ever going there myself if her husband commited such a crime.