Authority and scope
Check the professional and concern
The Board licenses registered professional nurses, licensed practical nurses, and advanced practice nurses: nurse practitioners, certified nurse-midwives, nurse anesthetists, and clinical nurse specialists. It reviews competence and professional conduct. CNAs belong to the CNA Registry; the Nursing Board also does not regulate hospitals, nursing homes, or home healthcare agencies.
Supporting guidance: How to file a nursing complaint ↗Complaints and investigations ↗
How the official source says to file
- Use the Board's linked online complaint form or send a sufficiently detailed letter to Maine State Board of Nursing, 158 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0158.
- Include your name and contact information, the nurse's first and last name, license number if known, address or general location if known, complete facts, and concerns in your own words.
- Healthcare entities making mandated reports should follow the page's separate instruction for organizational letterhead and designated email submission.
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What this route may not provide
The Board may discipline a nurse, but cannot award compensation or require payment to a complainant for harm. It does not handle malpractice claims. Fraudulent billing may raise a discipline issue, but the Board cannot order reimbursement.
Supporting guidance: Complaints and investigations ↗
Do not guess about confidentiality
The Board does not accept anonymous complaints. For an investigated complaint, it sends a copy to the nurse for a written response and copies that response to the complainant. Do not expect the complaint to remain hidden from the nurse.
Supporting guidance: How to file a nursing complaint ↗
No public complaint filing deadline established here.
This guide does not establish a deadline for filing a public nursing complaint. Ask the regulator promptly about any rule that applies to your facts; an investigation's estimated duration is not a filing deadline.
Supporting guidance: Complaints and investigations ↗
What may happen after filing
The Complaint Coordinator acknowledges receipt and jurisdiction is reviewed. The Board may close a case, issue a non-disciplinary concern letter, request further investigation, hold an informal conference, or proceed to a hearing. Discipline can include education, conditions, suspension, or loss of license.
Supporting guidance: How to file a nursing complaint ↗Complaints and investigations ↗
Prepare a reviewable submission
State the concern you want reviewed, then add a short chronology, best supporting records, factual consequences, and a specific request for review.
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Sources and scope
Some agency-linked forms and destinations could not be read. Source-check dates apply to the material listed below; they do not establish that every linked portal was inspected or a complaint submitted.
How to file a nursing complaint ↗
Nurse categories, CNA exclusion, online/letter instructions, mandated-entity route, anonymity, and nurse response.
Source checked: September 19, 2026
Complaints and investigations ↗
Facility exclusions, limits on compensation and billing relief, and possible process outcomes.
Source checked: September 19, 2026
Source check: September 19, 2026. This records a review of the linked material, not a decision about your case. No clinical or legal reviewer is identified for this guide. Confirm current instructions with the receiving authority.