Former Linn-Mar school nurse who had sex with student denied license reinstatement

The Iowa Board of Nursing has refused to reinstate the license of a school nurse convicted of having sex with a 16-year-old student.

According to court records, Angela Beik of Marion was convicted of sexual exploitation by a school employee in 2019 and was ordered to serve a 180-day jail sentence, pay a $625 fine and register as a sex offender.

Beik was the school nurse at Linn-Mar High School in Marion and also worked at UnityPoint Health-St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids. In 2018, police learned that Beik had allegedly told colleagues at St. Luke’s she had consensual sex with the boy. The coworkers reported the conversation to officials.

According to the board, Beik had befriended the high school freshman, giving him rides, helping him apply for jobs, assisting him with homework and taking him to church. On March 17, 2018, she went out to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, allegedly became very intoxicated and took an Ambien pill the next morning. That same morning, the student sent her a Snapchat message that included a photo of his genitalia. She drove to the student’s house, the two had sex, and then she drove to St. Luke’s and requested a “morning-after pill.”

According to the board, Beik maintains the sex was not consensual and that the student raped her. The board denied Beik’s application for reinstatement of her nursing license, indicating it was concerned she still lacks a good understanding of professional boundaries and fails to take responsibility for her actions.

The board noted she still has 30 days of her jail sentence to serve — the term was suspended due to the pandemic — and has up to 10 years of criminal probation to serve while remaining on the sex-offender registry.

This article first appeared in the Iowa Capital Dispatch.