A fake nursing student — but actual nurse — was discovered siphoning narcotics from patients’ IV bags.
An unidentified woman was arrested at Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids, Minnesota earlier in the week, after allegedly using a syringe to take morphine out of at least three different patient’s IVs.
She caught security’s attention after claiming to be a nursing student — on a day no students were scheduled to be at the hospital. The woman is a licensed nurse, but does not work at Mercy.
She was arrested and released without charges, pending further investigation. Hospital officials said no patients were harmed.
Let’s hope she was using a CLEAN syringe and not giving unsuspecting patient’s HBV, HCV or HIV.
These people are low and dishonest and should be prosecuted to the highest degree.