My boss is stealing narcotics......

celticwoman61 · Jul 9, 2008

update.......nothing to report......she is still working, have not heard from bon........everyone acts like it's another day in the park. i will keep you posted. again, thank you for all the support! :no:

Batman24 · Jul 9, 2008

update.......nothing to report......she is still working, have not heard from bon........everyone acts like it's another day in the park. i will keep you posted. again, thank you for all the support!

it's been over a week so they aren't going to take action here. they are going to sweep it under the rug. be very careful with your meds and document away. i'd look for another job as this place is dangerous.

sissiesmama, ASN, RN · Jul 9, 2008

update.......nothing to report......she is still working, have not heard from bon........everyone acts like it's another day in the park. i will keep you posted. again, thank you for all the support!

celticwoman61 i have been following this thread and i have to say i am speechless that someone has not done anything yet about this situation. as per another poster had said, the rn should have already peed in a cup. in the past, the facilities where i have worked had to escort their employee to give a uds and they did not go back to work. just my opinion, but someone is not handling their business. i would be so out of there!! i would not want to be in the position that you have been placed in.

anne, rnc :paw::paw::paw: :saint:

celticwoman61 · Jul 12, 2008

celticwoman61 i have been following this thread and i have to say i am speechless that someone has not done anything yet about this situation. as per another poster had said, the rn should have already peed in a cup. in the past, the facilities where i have worked had to escort their employee to give a uds and they did not go back to work. just my opinion, but someone is not handling their business. i would be so out of there!! i would not want to be in the position that you have been placed in.
anne, rnc :paw::paw::paw:

when i take the time to "step back" and observe and analyze this situation i see the absurdity of it and the red danger flags (for me). i wish circumstances would allow me to "be-so-out-of-here"! i'm no spring chickie and there are so many positive things about this place; so why should i be the one to run when i have done nothing wrong? (please don't read that as anger directed towards you....just citing facts). historically speaking though, it is always the whistle-blower that pays a high price (emotional stress etc.) and leaves a job! needless to say, my stress level is over the top and my health is paying the price. i am going to counseling to vent in a safe place.

we have yet to see bon walk onto the premises........they have had no contact with myself or my co-worker. very weird.

Daytonite, BSN, RN · Jul 12, 2008

I don't know what red flags you refer to. Having been a staff nurse who worked with people who got caught stealing narcotics and a supervisor and manager who had someone who was stealing narcotics you have to understand that there usually has to be solid evidence of the stealing before anyone gets fired or punished by the state board of nursing. Collection of evidence sometimes takes time since they often want it to come from more than one person or they want the pharmacy to be involved in it. Just be patient. Nursing won't be the only ones involved in this. I have no doubts that the pharmacy department is most likely pulling and reviewing every narcotic record that this particular nurse had contact with.

When something like this happened to me years ago and I thought nothing was being done I started keeping my own documentation of the nurse's wrongdoing (the nurse was failing to give medication and falsifying glucometer readings). I fully intended to report all of this to the state board of nursing myself. Then, one shift just before I was getting ready to leave, in comes a pharmacist who took the med cart to audit it (count all the drugs) before this poor excuse for a nurse came on duty. They were also coming in at the end of her shift. This was part of the pharmacy's investigation of her. She was gone a few days later. From what I was told later, the pharmacy found huge discrepancies between what she had charted on the MARs that she gave and what was actually left in the med cart. She was too lazy and stupid to even throw out what she didn't give. She still faked glucose readings (the glucometers store the readings in their memories). As the story finally unfolded, the nursing administration did indeed take my complaint seriously, but because of employee confidentiality they could not go around talking about what they were doing about this problem or this nurse could come back on them with a lawsuit for defamation. Anyway, a good manager worth their salt doesn't go around gossiping with the help about the employees under their supervision.

This nurse knew I was on to her and she was bad mouthing me to everyone. That was because I was going around telling everyone what I had caught her doing--that was my big mistake and lesson I had to learn--keep my mouth shut. The thing is that when she realized that she was being investigated, her anger toward me stopped because she knew she was in trouble, her license could very well be taken away and it was her own fault. She was never a problem after that and if she had been I wouldn't have wasted a minute filing for an order of restraint against her. People who are willing to act like that have no business being in this profession.

My advice is that you do what I did. Continue to objectively document and report what you observe and keep copies for yourself. If you don't feel anything is being done after a few weeks, tell your manager that you intend to report these incidents to the state board yourself. Wait one more week and then do that. The state board will take it from there and go to the facility and force them to produce records and do their own investigation.

There are only 2 ways this nurse would find out that you were the one who turned her in: (1) you went around telling people that you did, or (2) the person who you reported the incident to spilled the beans that you were the one who reported her. Now, who do you suppose is responsible?