Addicted hospital worker exposed hundreds of patients to Hep C

OKay, so....am I the only one who found it a bit shady when it was mentioned that she didn't want job no. 2 contacting job no. 1 b/c she still worked there? I think employer no. 2 would have thought so.

Yes, anesthesia providers always have meds drawn up & available on their carts, but those meds are not narcotics.
IMHO: If any provider is stupid enough to leave the narcotics out unattended, they deserve disciplinary action right along with the person who took advantage of the situation.

Uhhhh, I've seen fentanyl and propofol as well as paralytics etc. drawn up and on anesthesia carts. They also bring a little "goody box" when they respond to codes which has all the meds for a RSI.

Interesting; my question was for elective surgery is it proper to have meds (controlled or not) drawn up in unlabeled syringes? I didn't think it was proper practice for a CRNA to pull a partially filled 5ml syringe without a label from her pocket then try to squirt it into my IV. All I could think of was: what's actually in that syringe? She said fentanyl which made me nervous because the volume was excessive (and I doubt that they dilute it, maybe I'm wrong); I was thinking maybe wrong drug, not diverted fentanly and a syringe filled with viral scum. I was surprized when she walked away and put the unused "fentanyl" back in her pocket. maybe I was out of line; is this an accepted practice? It worked out because the anesthesiologist took over and did the procedure with only Ancef and lidocaine for the Bier Block. I'm a pharmacist not a nurse, and know little about CRNA practice; I do give a lot of injections (simple stuff like allergy shots)and I know that pulling an unlabeled prefilled syringe from my pocket and injecting a patient wouldn't be acceptable, say, in the allergy clinic. Is this acceptale inthe O.R.?