she wrote prescriptions for oxycodone for six patients — but kept the pills for herself. Unbeknownst to six patients, she wrote a total of 32 prescriptions for oxycodone in their names in July through October and obtained 896 pills — all of which she kept for herself.
Due to action taken by a licensing board in West Virginia, the Tennessee licenses of Shannon Rowe, A.P.N., R.N., Elizabethton, have been placed on probation to run concurrent with an existing Tennessee Professional Assistance Program contract. A board order states Rowe’s abuse of Dilaudid and Ativan in April 2008 prompted the West Virginia Board of
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12,000 exposed to Hepatitis C in seven states after stealing fentanyl and refilling syringes with saline to be later injected into patients.
Two patients at an Ohio nursing home gained access to oxycodone pills left unlocked on a medication cart by a license practical nurse.
While on medical leave in March and April 2012, Kellermann used his employee key code to enter the company after hours, deactivate the alarm and steal narcotic pain medication for his personal use, prosecutors said. Kellermann removed the plastic top of vials containing hydromorphone and morphine, inserted syringes into the vials, and withdrew drugs from
charged with stealing roughly 20,000 doses of addictive drugs over several years from his workplace. Grothaus is accused of stealing five types of drugs, mostly the sedative zolpidem (sold under the brand name Ambien) and the opioid painkiller tramadol (brand name Ultram). An internal investigation by HealthPartners at the two Park Nicollet pharmacies in July
The nurse, who leaders did not identify by name or age, worked in the hospital’s emergency department from Aug. 4, 2017, through March 23 of this year. She has resigned and faces an investigation by the state’s Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission, She denied any illegal activity when confronted by hospital investigators, Bredeson said, but
a nurse diverted 1,388 mg of hydromorphone over a period of three months. Hendricks Regional began subscribing to and using Omnicell's Pandora Analytics software to improve detection of drug diversion; re-educated staff; installed high-definition cameras; and increased reporting after its pharmacy discovered a nurse's diversion.
Based on "numerous incidents of diversion," Reid was cited by the Drug Enforcement Administration for "failure to provide effective controls and procedures to guard against theft and diversion of controlled substances … " On the day that Reid finally caught up with nurse Michelle Hibbard, in January of 2017, she was a walking pharmacy. Asked