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B.C. nurse disciplined for narcotics theft
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 [...]
NC nurse who stole surgical patients’ opioid painkillers is going to prison
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 [...]
UPMC employee charged with stealing patient’s oxycodone
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 [...]
Butler Memorial Hospital Nurse Accused Of Stealing Pills
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 [...]
Ex-Nurse Avoids Jailtime For Stealing Boston Patients’ Opioids
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 [...]
Missouri Nurse Admits Taking Leftover Fentanyl from 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 [...]
Detroit nurse sentenced to prison for stealing painkillers, replacing it with saline
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 [...]
North Iowa nurse sentenced for stealing patients’ painkillers
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. [...]
Ex Hospital Respiratory Therapist Jennifer Hall Pleads Guilty in Deaths of 2 Patients
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, [...]
Iowa nurse, cited three times for stealing patients’ painkillers, surrenders license
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 [...]