Employers are obligated by law to advise the CNO when they have fired a nurse, and provide reasons.  If the nurse agrees with the reasons and accepts responsibility, there is no further investigation, and the CNO proceeds to the penalty phase.  There appears to have been nothing on its face to make her termination any worse than most of the other 1300 terminations a year the CNO deals with.

Even if the nurse has 'handed in' her licence, the CNO was right to revoke it instead  -  it can make a difference in the future.  In any event, the hearing today was a formality.