A Nashville nurse has admitted to stealing and abusing opioid medications while working at two of the cities’ most prominent hospitals in recent years. State officials suspended the nursing license of N. Harper, who has been a nurse in Tennessee for about five years, but Harper could potentially get the license back if she undergoes [...]
A registered nurse fired for stealing opiates and shooting up fentanyl in a hospital washroom should get another crack at showing why she should get her job back, Divisional Court has ruled. At issue, the court ruled, was whether the Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre in Barrie, Ont., indirectly discriminated against the nurse – identified [...]
A school nurse is facing two felony counts of child neglect following an investigation into irregularities of student medication at Paxton School. On May 21, the Walton County Sheriff's Office launched a investigation into discrepancies in student medication. The report was initiated by Paxton School Principal Cindy Neale after a parent discovered her child’s prescriptions [...]
An Evansville nursing aide has been sentenced for her role in administering her own personal medications to three residents at a nursing facility. A judge sentenced Gloria Welborn to 820 days after she pleaded guilty to three counts of neglect of a dependent following an investigation by the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU). [...]
A Riverside woman was indicted Wednesday on multiple charges involving drug thefts from Miami Valley Hospital. C. Cooper, 27, a registered nurse, is ordered to appear June 27 for her arraignment in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court. Cooper faces 11 felony charges, including 10 counts of theft of drugs and one count of possession of [...]
Two medical assistants and a boyfriend to one of them are facing organized crime charges for allegedly forging more than 100 prescriptions for the pain-treating narcotic hydrocodone by using information from their Shenandoah employer. N. Yareli Maya, 25, of Spring, J. Mendez, 25, of Houston, and J. Alverto Beltran, 27, of Houston, have been charged [...]
A former Benson doctor whose medical license was revoked last year allegedly administered significant amounts of Oxycodone that were then sold in Tucson by a co-conspirator, officials with the Arizona Attorney General’s Office said. Glenn Gary Robertson, 50, was indicted May 29 for illegally conducting an enterprise, conspiracy, fraud, transporting a narcotic drug for sale and [...]
A local pharmacist was arrested Wednesday for stealing controlled substances. The Chatham-Savannah Counter Narcotics Team (CNT) arrested 59-year-old David Williford of Rincon. Williford voluntarily turned himself in. Williford has been charged with criminal attempt to violate the Georgia Controlled Substance Act and theft by taking. Williford is currently being held at the Chatham County Detention [...]
Sharon E. Jackson, of Wellsburg, was sentenced on May 30, to two years probation for distributing drugs illegally, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced. Jackson, 46, a registered nurse, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances outside the bounds of professional medical practice in December 2017. Jackson admitted to conspiring with others [...]
An Oakwood woman was indicted Tuesday on multiple charges involving drug thefts from Kettering Medical Center. G. Bridgman, 48, a registered nurse, is ordered to appear June 25 for arraignment in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court. According to her grand jury indictment, of the 11 charges against her, nine are felonies, including: Six counts of [...]