A couple of weeks ago, our facility had some narcotic syringes missing from our med cart. This happened on a weekend that I do not work. I was frantic because I knew that I had counted these syringes correctly with the oncoming staff. I was not called or notified that weekend of this. Found out when I reported to work the following week. I am in the Admin office wanting to know if police called, drug testing and trying to get to the bottom of what happened. So come to find out, this is what happened, (after I stated I was going to call police to file a report). The Admin stated that another CMA wanted to "teach" the other CMA's a lesson the importance of counting the narcotic syringes. He/she had taken the narcs out of the locked med box and had given them to the Admin, so the narcs would be "missing". He/she in turn had them in his/her desk drawer and not locked up. He/she showed me that he/she had the missing syringes and he/she left them on him/her desk for at least a week. We kept telling him/her to put these up or waste them, (with witnesses),
due to the fact that many people are in and out of his/her office all the time. Kept telling Admin that syringes could be used and returned to the desk top.
So guess what? Came to work and the syringes are back in the locked narc box and signed off by the CMA that originally took them out! How in the world do I know that the medication is actually in the syringes? I keep signing off the narc count sheet as incorrect d/t to the fact they were missing and now returned. The staff confronted the Admin regarding this and we were told the CMA's needed to be "taught" a lesson by this other CMA. Informed him/her that he/she had put our nursing licenses on the line with this stunt. We were told this action was never directed towards the nurses...huh?
Where do I go from here (besides out the door)? Oh, one other thing...this certain CMA is the "best buddy" of the Admin. and loves to keep the facility "stirred" up to their advantage.
