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SYRAC– USE, N.Y. — A registered nurse who stole prescription painkillers for her own use in Ithaca and Syracuse has turned in her nursing license.
Kathleen M. Daniels, of Cortland, admitted guilt to professional misconduct charges in a signed agreement with the state Education Department.
Daniels withdrew OxyContin without a doctor’s order and did not administer it to a patient while working in Syracuse in 2016. The department did not identify the facility where Daniels was employed.
In 2013 Daniels took Fentanyl, a powerful painkiller, from a drug dispensing system at an Ithaca health facility and took it herself. She subsequently pleaded guilty to criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree.
She pleaded guilty to petit larceny in 2015 in Tompkins County Court after being accused of entering a home to steal prescription drugs.
The Education Department, which licenses nurses, charged her with being habitually drunk or dependent on narcotics or other drugs.