[boulergirl]

EWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nasty!

[slinkeecat]

YUCKY!!!!! Not only did she get the duragesic gel... but Staph and mites lurking on the adhesive patch ..... I think i am gonna puke.......

[Darlene K.]

Originally Posted by slinkeecat

YUCKY!!!!! Not only did she get the duragesic gel... but Staph and mites lurking on the adhesive patch ..... I think i am gonna puke.......

Or a nappy hair!

[SKM-NURSIEPOOH]

Originally Posted by FurmanGirl

CUMBERLAND, Md. -- A West Virginia woman has been convicted of neglect after she admitted removing a nursing home patient's time-release pain patch and sucking out the medication.
Megan Oglesbee, 21, of Keyser, W.Va., pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of neglect of a vulnerable adult.
A judge sentenced Oglesbee to 18 months in jail, all suspended, and placed her on three years supervised probation. Oglesbee will be required to complete substance abuse treatment, submit to drug testing and is barred from caring for vulnerable adults.
A $1,000 fine also was suspended.
The state attorney general's office said Oglesbee was working last year as a nursing assistant at Moran Manor Nursing Home in Westernport, Md. A patient in her care had been prescribed a 72-hour transdermal pain patch. The day after the patch was applied, Oglesbee removed it, stuck a pin in the patch and sucked out the medication.
http://www.wyff4.com/irresistible/5304029/detail.html

Can someone say: !!!

[MS._Jen_RN]

Originally Posted by ZASHAGALKA

I'm a firm believer that direct care providers should be randomly and routinely drug tested. And that includes doctors, as a condition of maintaining privileges.

~faith,
Timothy.

I have to agree. For everyone- aides, Rn's, Docs, Anestesia etc.
~Jen

[LoriAlabamaRN]

We had an RN at a hospital I used to work at who tested positive for Demerol... turned out she'd been "marking" the sharps container used for waste with a sharpie, when the sharps containers are full, tape gets wrapped around them and they are put in the soiled utility room... she would "take a bag of trash" to toss in there on her way out at the end of her shift, and slip the marked sharps container into the tote bag she always carried, cover it with her sweater, and leave. When she got home she would take a hacksaw to the container. She didn't admit to this, though, but a random drug test marked her positive, she was fired and her license taken, and she said she had just taken home and injected a 25mg dose to help with back pain. I found out the rest- my backyard happens to adjoin hers (yup, we were neighbors) and my dog dug under her fence and came back with part of a sharps container (a cut off corner) in his mouth and I confronted her. She broke down crying and admitted what she had been doing. I feel kinda sorry for her- she's a waitress at Cracker Barrel now and the last time I saw her (she lost the house behind mine where she used to live because she couldn't afford it going from an RN salary to that of a waitress) but the last time I happened to run into her at Walmart, she had open sores all over both arms... I guess she's still using.
People will do unthinkable things to get high. I read where heroin addicts with no veins left will use insulin needles to inject themselves in the eye. Apparently the small hole seals up before much ocular fluid can leak.

Hey, if people will lick the back of a poisonous frog to get high, or eat mushrooms growing in cow manure to get high, then I guess licking a patch isn't such a stretch. I just can't imagine *shudder*

Lori

[bethin]

People WILL do anything for a fix--even if it means putting a pt. in pain. Those poor pts. It's such a selfish act.

[Dayray]

Just goes to show.

Drug abuse SUCKS

[Marie_LPN, RN]

Ah, not funny.

[TrickieTam]

Wow