B.C.’s College of Nurses and Midwives has disciplined a nurse for diversion of narcotics from their employer for their own use. On May 19, a college inquiry committee panel approved an agreement between the college and a nurse to address January 2021 to June 2022 issues related to narcotic diversion for on-duty, personal use. The nurse was diagnosed with [...]
A former Fuquay-Varina nurse was sentenced Monday to four years in prison and three years of supervised release for tampering with opioid painkillers intended for surgery patients. Melissa Elizabeth Chacona pleaded guilty to the charges in March last year, the federal court of Eastern District of North Carolina announced. Federal indictment documents reviewed by The [...]
A UPMC employee has been charged after an investigation found him allegedly stealing pills, mainly oxycodone, from patients. Officials with the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General Bureau of Narcotics Drug Control began investigating a possible “drug diversion” involving former UPMC Williamsport employee, Peter Tubbs, 29, of Williamsport. Police say Tubbs was suspected of diverting [...]
A nurse at Butler Memorial Hospital is accused of taking pain medication that was intended for her patients. The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office filed charges earlier this week against D. Shook. She allegedly stole the prescription opioid Dilaudid, which is also known as hydromorphone. The charges come following an internal investigation that started last August [...]
Lisa Tarr, 33, of St. Petersburg, Fla., was sentenced to five years of probation, with the first year being spent in home detention, the US Attorney for Massachusetts said. Tarr pleaded guilty last year to four counts of unlawfully obtaining controlled substances by fraud, deception, and subterfuge. Tarr was a student nurse at a Boston-area hospital [...]
A registered nurse on Thursday admitted illegally obtaining and using fentanyl from the hospital where she worked. Lindsey M. Francis, now 35, was a nurse at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau at the time of the crime. On Jan. 15, 2022, a colleague discovered a used syringe in a locker room in the [...]
A Detroit nurse received a four-year prison sentence this week after she was caught stealing painkillers at a hospital where she worked. Mary Cheatham, 42, of Ypsilanti, was caught tampering with vials and syringes containing the painkiller hydromorphone at DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital in 2020. Authorities say she would steal the painkillers for herself and then [...]
A Clear Lake nurse is going to federal prison for stealing fentanyl from elderly patients. Ryan William Thornton has been ordered to spend nine months behind bars and then serve one year of supervised release. Thornton pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa to acquiring a controlled substance by misrepresentation, [...]
While Jennifer Hall was employed at Hedrick Medical Center, the rate of cardiac collapses rose from one per year to 18 in 18 months. A former respiratory therapist at Hedrick Medical Center in Chillicothe, Missouri, has pleaded guilty to first-degree involuntary manslaughter and second-degree assault of two patients. Although Jennifer Hall, 42, pleaded guilty in [...]
An Iowa nurse accused of stealing patient painkillers on three separate occasions has agreed to surrender her license. Last October, police and paramedics were called to the Coon Rapids home of R. Landon, an Iowa-licensed nurse, in response to a call about a suspected drug overdose. According to state records, they found Landon at the [...]