Unnamed nurse suspended for one week, faces practice restrictions and medical monitoring.
B.C.’s College of Nurses and Midwives has suspended a nurse for one week after finding they diverted painkilling drugs from patients and practiced while impaired.
“The concerns related to diversion of narcotics from the workplace, practising while impaired, diverting narcotics away from patients leaving them in discomfort and falsification of records in order to conceal the diversion activities. • enrolment in a medical monitoring agreement with an independent agency for a minimum of 36 months with regular reports of compliance being provided to the college;• a limit restricting access to and handling of narcotics, benzodiazepines, controlled substances, and the sedatives, with concurrent medical monitoring for a period to support the stable return to work and ongoing fitness to practice;
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