I turned in my mentor because she was diverting morphine

[InSchool4eva20]

I had to turn in a nurse who was my mentor, friend, and someone I had on a pedestal. She made my kids baby blankets, we would trade shifts and I caught her diverting morphine. Diverting from a patient who had acid burns on his face on hospice care in hospital. This happened several years ago and after I turned her in I found out she had three other occurrences reported. This was back when we wore crocs at work and she had slipped on ice and broke her leg and became addicted. Throughout the years I have caught two more, one other was a PICC line nurse who gave the patient morphine and I caught him injecting himself at the patients bedside. This is so haunting and traumatic for everyone involved. It makes you suspicious of everyone overtime and each time I discovered it was by accident.

What are your experiences with this?

[guest874748]

I don't view letting someone keep their means of an income to be enabling

[JadedCPN, BSN, RN]

1 minute ago, DMQ48 said:

I don't view letting someone keep their means of an income to be enabling

Which shows, much like some of your other responses in other threads, why it is a good thing you aren't a nurse.

[guest874748]

oh you've been waiting for that zing for awhile

[JadedCPN, BSN, RN]

15 minutes ago, DMQ48 said:

oh you've been waiting for that zing for awhile

I don't come on this forum to intentionally zing people. Your responses show that you don't have an understanding of the nursing perspective of many scenarios including this one. Your responses make me glad that you aren't a nurse. Just contributing to the forum discussion.

[guest874748]

'it follows'

[Wuzzie]

40 minutes ago, DMQ48 said:

I don't view letting someone keep their means of an income to be enabling

Would you be okay with someone you loved being taken care of by a nurse who is using drugs?

[Hoosier_RN, MSN]

On 6/24/2020 at 6:46 PM, amoLucia said:

Kudos to OP (and all others) for having the courage to do what most prob were some of the most difficult decisions ever to be made.

I've learned of nurses I've known/worked with who had similar addiction/diversion difficulties. Maybe because I'm one to just mind my own business when I went in, went home, went in, went home, etc, I never saw things occurring. And I was 11-7 LTC.

Even with narc counts, I don't recall ever being suspicious of anyone.

I guess that made me a lucky one.

I'm in the same boat. I've never really been suspicious of anyone. A nurse that worked 3rd in the LTC where I worked 2nd years ago got fired for diversion, but not reported to state. She became fixated on the thought that I reported her, made threats etc. Come to find out that her best buddy that got her hired there had turned her in. They were both diverting, and the buddy did it thinking they would blame the issues on nurse #1. Unfortunately, after thorough investigation, the whole story came out, and nurse #2 hung herself as well. Both had lost jobs prior due to diverting, neither had ever been reported to state. Both were very religious and always had the holier than thou attitude. Just goes to show, drug users aren't always back alley bums or hardened jerks

[guest874748]

Your responses definitely make me glad you aren't my nurse or anywhere in my vicinity. Kudos for the edit ?

[chare]

2 hours ago, DMQ48 said:

I don't view letting someone keep their means of an income to be enabling

So what do you think would have been an appropriate action in this situation?

[guest874748]

Before I respond to that, why did you 'like' the comment that Jadedcpn wrote about being glad I wasn't a nurse?

[Wuzzie]

42 minutes ago, DMQ48 said:

Before I respond to that, why did you 'like' the comment that Jadedcpn wrote about being glad I wasn't a nurse?

To whom are you responding? Using the quote button really helps.

[chare]

30 minutes ago, Wuzzie said:

To whom are you responding? Using the quote button really helps.

He or she is responding to my post.