Need advice on a Bad nurse

[NurseyTee]

Ok, here's the situation. I'm working with this newly hired nurse that's acting strange her first day, ie: can't seem to stay awake, wobbling walking, falling asleep doing dressing chg. & at the computer. I didn't see this but was told via other nurses that were shadowing with her. I was Charge nurse and on my shift we were working graveyard I noticed she was signing off too many narcs on a patient that didn't have the mental capacity to request them, which is why pt. is on routines. At any rate she had given pt. 2 vicodin in less than 3 hrs. when she only has 1 tid routinely. I reported this to DON and other things have been reported by other nurses, such as other narcs being wasted which needed a 2 nurse sign off and when 2nd nurse asked to see where it was, she said she smashed it into the carpeting with her foot. Other nurse said "Show me, there should be powder resdue still there." and she refused. This also reported.

At any rate, at bad nurse's encouragement out loud in the nurses station she says "I'm as clean as a whistle any one can see that on the internet on the board of nursing website" I thought, hmm.... yeah, that's right. So I went and looked it up and she's suspended in the original state in which she was licensed. I think she knew she was in trouble in that state and ran over the line and got her license over there before it showed up on her license and couldn't get endorsement. My question is: Is this legal? And do the Boards of Nursing have some sort of protocol on this sort of thing? I have no idea because I've never known a nurse like this before. All the rest of the nurses I work with are top notch and we all are so offended by this. Can you all give me some advice or tell me how the states deal with this?

[CHATSDALE]

you have a bad cookie there...don needs to suspend employment until they have determined if her license is valid...

bon needs to be informed of previous problems in orginal state...everyone with knowledge is going to be responsible if she harms a pt

[Katnip, RN]

If people actually documented her behavior I'd report her to the BON and let them investigate.

What has your DON said or done about it?

[gr8rnpjt, RN]

Big Big Big red flags here..The deception, the loud and confrontational behavior, the nodding off, this is a diverter if I have ever seen one, and I have seen 2 in my lifetime as a nurse. I would bet good money that she is not clean.

[jillyk*rn]

Uh-Oh:angryfire !!! That is bad news. This needs to go to DON immediately, with a demand for action. Suspicious narcotic counts, strange behavior. Get her out of there quick. I don't know how to get BON involved, but they need to be. I've seen the feds walk on a floor and arrest a nurse!!!