Another day, another drug diversion. Yet this time, the nurse intentionally tried to cover her trail. According to a report, a nurse that worked in a nursing home in New York was stealing prescriptions pain medications, including Percocet. Not only did she know this was wrong to be diverting drugs from the patients' at the [...]
How do you prove wasting of medication really happened? Do you require witnesses? Is it done under camera? What if it is a doctor, do you do things differently? There was recently an article about a doctor that was taking morphine to give herself a boost at the end of her shift. The morphine was given to [...]
Talking with hospitals, two of the key factors to almost all decisions are “Patient Safety” and “Quality of Care”. Unfortunately, when drug diversion comes into play, both of those get thrown out the window. This week a nurse at a rehabilitation center in Connecticut was accused of swapping prescription pain medication, including Oxycodone and Diazepam, [...]
While I hear cases all the time about drug diversion from hospitals by employees entrusted to safely dispense and administer controlled substances, I have never been as heartbroken as what I just heard. A man in upstate New York pleaded guilty last week to counts of kidnapping and sexually exploiting four children, on 16 occasions. [...]
There is a story out of Fresno, CA of a nurse that was stealing Fentanyl. He is accused of stealing over 400 vials of it while he was to be on paternity leave. What is interesting is that he was coming into the hospital taking just a few vials each time to make it appear [...]