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AVON LAKE, OH – Theft, Dec. 21 – Morphine was stolen from a 88-year-old nursing home patient at a group home on Webber Road. The woman’s nurse and social worker reported the theft.
HelioMetrics Comment:
The information above is from a “police news wire”. This means there isn’t a full story to go along with it… But just those 2 sentences raise a few questions…
- How much was stolen? 1 pill, 10 pills, the entire bottle?
- If the entire bottle wasn’t taken, how did they determine that some was stolen?
- Has this happened before that the nursing home?
- What checks are being done that the nursing home to make sure that this isn’t happening and going unnoticed?
- Has the nursing home hired someone that has had other drug related activities in their past that were not caught or they were not formally charged? It seems like nurses that get let go from hospitals for drug diversion that do NOT get reported to the police somehow end up working in nursing homes.
If I were an administrator at this facility, or any nursing facility, I would start looking for better ways to control medication. As more and more hospitals start watching for drug diversion, the “bad apples” are going to be heading for nursing facilities….