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Accused of Stealing Narcotics
I'ma 55 year old RN. I worked at the DVAMC for over 31 years. Last year one of my co-worker who I thought was my best friend stole my pin number and took over 400 percocet from the pixes machine using my pin number. I kept telling everyone that I didn't do it and no one believed me. I had to take a urine drug screen which came back positive because I have a prescription to take percocet. I was put on six months of administrative leave. I normally worked the night shift so I was broght on days to work in the admistrative office. The feds finally discovered throgh their invesigation that the other nurse indeed used my pin number to gain access to the drugs. I was never found innocent of the charges. Instead they said that there was not enough evidence to convict me. At the time of the investigation I became very depressed and had difficulty performing my job. I wss so scared because they said that I could go to jail or lose my license. Human resources gave me a letter saying that I had to perform a fitness for duty because they felt that I wasn't competent enough to perform my duties as an RN. They said that if I couldn't find a doctor to prrove that I was disabled that they would do it for me. I already have arthritis in my feet so my foot doctor wrote a letter stating that needed to get a medical retirement which was false. They foced me to retire . My union rep couldn't even help me. At oen point I was even accused of drinking alcohol on the job. They said that the area I worked in smelled of alcohol. The police came and I was forced to take a breathalizer which of course turned out negative. I've been unempolyed for a year because I've been so depressed over what happen I'm having a hard time concentrating . I can't find a job because I can't do floor nursing anymore which I was doing before I was retired. I can't live on my medical disability income and was forced to file a chapter seven. I also had to take a hard ship loan from my TSP and now I owe the IRS over 11,000.00. The nurse that stole my pin number never admitted that she did it. To this day I don't know why she betrayed me. She ruined my life. I'm worried that I'm being black balled from preventing employers from hiring me. Since I was never convicted of my crime will this incodent show up on my record when they do a back ground check? How can I find out?
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October 2nd, 2013 at 9:48 pm
This story is just awful. I am a Travel RN and after they accused me of walking off the job they said I took for pills and didn’t document them. I am getting an Attorney but, after reading all these stories I don’t think I want to be a nurse anymore.
October 19th, 2013 at 11:57 pm
Glad you’re getting an attorney. Fight it. Too many hospitals ruin nurses’ careers over falsehoods. I was banned from working at an Escondido, CA, hospital because their narcotic documentation was beyond repetitous, and because I couldn’t grasp their “write/record it here, here, here, here, and here,” process, I was fired during probation for lack of narcotic documentation. Try getting a job now, the manager said to me. She is the one who should be out of Nursing. I was a new grad, terrible preceptors, 12 in all because none of them wanted to be a preceptor, PPH made it a policy for the existing RNs to be a preceptor for a grand extra $1 per hour and as part of their annual review. They HAD to be a preceptor for a positive annual review. 12 preceptors. Really? New grad RN with, let’s call it like it was, NO PRECEPTORSHIP at all. It was horrible. Needless to say, they are not on my resume. Idiots! I would guide anyone away from going to nursing school. Maybe Nurse Practitioner degree, but certainly not RN. Forget it, kids. Horrible “profession”. Did hospice work. Loved the patients, they loved me. Hospice agencies are there to keep the Medicare money. Horrible. Try to get equipment in the house to help a patient, oh, no…we must hold onto that money. Unbelieveable. Go into something else. Medicine is a mess.