Someone forged my signature!!!

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Specializes in LTC.

Yep, it happened to me. Another nurse forged my signature on a narcotic sheet! I'm pretty certain I know who it was and am not real pleased with the nurse at the moment (obviously!). It wasn't just my name either.

I feel betrayed, hurt, angry, taken advantage of, etc.

I don't think I'll be able to talk to this nurse in a civilized manner anymore.

The one good thing is we saw this at the beginning of our shift and brought it to the DON's attention immediately.

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Specializes in CCU & CTICU.

Terrible. Glad you reported it.

Keep us updated on if they're fired or not (I think they will be, but you never know).

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Specializes in LTC.

Hopefully, she will be. There was an incident when I started at this facility where the exact same med came up missing (a whole 30 pill card) but they could never prove who had taken the meds. It seems pretty obvious now, though.

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I'm so sorry this happened to you. I'm glad you caught it early and reported it to the DON. Be sure to follow up in writing just to have a paper trail and protect yourself even further. Pls keep us posted on what happens. They should be fired.

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Specializes in LTC, case mgmt, agency.

Glad to hear you caught it. Wow. Keep us updated.

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Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.

Nothing surprizes me and I hope that these nurses are disciplined to the fullest extent possible. To dare to ruin someone else's living behind their habits and greed deserves to be punished.

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Specializes in EMS, ER, GI, PCU/Telemetry.

i'm glad you were able to catch it and present it to administration before it got any worse.... she obviously needs an intervention. keep us posted on what happens!

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Does anyone here have any compassion? This nurse obviously has a problem and she needs help. Enough with the "TERMINATE, TERMINATE, TERMINATE" responses. sheeeesh. Yes, what she did is very serious. It's wrong. She has a problem. I hope she gets the help that she so obviously needs.

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Specializes in Operating Room.
Does anyone here have any compassion? This nurse obviously has a problem and she needs help. Enough with the "TERMINATE, TERMINATE, TERMINATE" responses. sheeeesh. Yes, what she did is very serious. It's wrong. She has a problem. I hope she gets the help that she so obviously needs.

I lost my compassion the minute I read that she forged someones signature, and tried to drag them into her problem. I think the people calling for termination are doing so because she forged another nurses signature which is flat out wrong. :banghead:

Another vote for "terminate, terminate, terminate" here.:down:

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Specializes in EMS, ER, GI, PCU/Telemetry.
Does anyone here have any compassion? This nurse obviously has a problem and she needs help. Enough with the "TERMINATE, TERMINATE, TERMINATE" responses. sheeeesh. Yes, what she did is very serious. It's wrong. She has a problem. I hope she gets the help that she so obviously needs.

i also wrote she needed an intervention, if you look above.

but aside from getting help for her drug problem, yes, she does need to be let go from her position. she has now committed fraud against another person.

drugs make you do stupid things. i hope she gets help too. but it is still not an offense that she can be excused of at this time.

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OMG...that Nurse should be fired! No question.

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Specializes in CCU & CTICU.
Does anyone here have any compassion? This nurse obviously has a problem and she needs help. Enough with the "TERMINATE, TERMINATE, TERMINATE" responses. sheeeesh. Yes, what she did is very serious. It's wrong. She has a problem. I hope she gets the help that she so obviously needs.

You realize if there was an audit and a missing narc problem came up with Kermitlady's forged name on it & she hadn't realized her sig had been forged, she could have lost her license? And maybe gone to jail?

It's one thing to screw yourself. It's another to do it to someone else.

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