A traveling nurse’s drug crimes started in 2013, when she served 90 days in jail according to a recent article and is currently on probation for that. However things didn’t stop there, while on a temporary nursing job and only two days after she was given her swipe badge, she started stealing Fentanyl and Midazolam [...]
My first thought was good for that patient. There is an article about a LPN in a nursing home that has been charged with stealing medication from the nursing home residents. What is so great about this story is how she got caught. While stealing medication from one resident, she started stealing from another. This [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]