Now, the attorney general has filed a formal complaint against her.Ĭollins is just one example of a problem facing the medical profession across the country and in the Hoosier state. She used her own children’s names to score the drugs and she even forged a doctors signature along the way. Laura Collins, a Muncie nurse, was fired from a retirement home in 2013 for stealing over 400 opioid pain pills. However, there are programs in place to help nurses suffering from addiction. The Indiana Attorney General’s Office aggressively looks for it and recently went after the licenses of two local nurses. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind–It’s a bigger problem than you might think–some nurses using their position to abuse prescription drugs. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. lot, prolonged lunch breaks, Monday a.m.This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Missing in Action (frequent trips to bathroom, pkg.Inability to focus on work – disorientation. ![]() Speech affected (slurred, confused, fragmented, slow).Smell of alcohol/MJ on the person (or attempts to cover it up).Change in personal appearance or work station (eyes, nose, skin color, perspiration, long sleeves, always fatigued).Continued use despite knowledge of problems caused or aggravated by use (e.g.Important social, work or recreational activities given up because of use/abuse.Considerable more time spent obtaining or using alcohol/drugs or recovering from its effects.Desire &/or unsuccessful effort to cut down or control use.Alcohol/drugs used for longer than intended.A nurse is defined as being dependent on alcohol/drugs if he/she reports three or more of the following symptoms: (DSM-IV).Failing to provide nursing care because of diagnosis, age, sex, race, color or creed.Disregarding a patient’s dignity, right to privacy and confidentiality.Performing any nursing technique or procedure for which the nurse is unprepared by education or experience.Misappropriating money or property from a patient, colleague or the facility.Diverting prescription drugs for one’s own or another person’s use.Delegating nursing care, functions, tasks or responsibilities to others when the nurse knows or should know that such delegation is to the detriment of the patient.Abandoning or knowingly neglecting patients requiring nursing care.Abusing a patient verbally, physically, emotionally or sexually.Falsifying, omitting or destroying documentation of nursing actions on the patient record/medication log.Using unsafe judgment, technical skills or inappropriate interpersonal behaviors in providing nursing care.Impairment may include but are not limited to the following: ![]()
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