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 [...]
When you look at drug diversion, sometimes it can be hard to see everyone that is affected by it. Mayo Clinic even went to the point of calling drug diversion a “multiple-victim crime” in their article Diversion of Drugs Within Health Care Facilities, a Multiple-Victim Crime: Patterns of Diversion, Scope, Consequences, Detection, and Prevention. They [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]