License Losers: Repeat Offenders

• One nurse (with one alias) was given a one-month license suspension and put on two years probation for filing a false employment application. This nurse had two previous actions by the licensing body. One action was four years ago (and one additional alias ago), which earned a fine and partial suspension for "administering a contraindicated medication, failing to promptly assess and medicate a patient and giving a discharged patient liquid medication in a bottle which contained a pin." The other was seven years ago (no additional aliases), when the nurse received two years probation and a fine for giving an IV solution other than that ordered by a doctor.

• Another nurse (with no aliases!) could not be held back long for practicing – for the wrong reasons. One November, the nurse was suspended and fined for "diverting the narcotics Morphine and/or Dilaudid for [their] own use by making fraudulent entries … using patient identification numbers for the withdrawals …" The next month, the nurse was back at work, without a license, and so up on new charges.

• Then there's the nurse who has been put on suspension and probation twice in nine years for drunk-driving related charges, most recently, Operating a Motor Vehicle While Intoxicated by Alcohol, a Felony, and previously Vehicular Assault in the Second Degree, a Class E Felony, and Driving While Intoxicated, an Unclassified Misdemeanor. [Why is this person not in jail? Don't get me started about drunk drivers.]

• But how about the pharmacists? One pharmacy has, twice in three years, received suspensions for allowing unlicensed individuals to dispense prescriptions and supervise other pharmacy staff.

• And lastly, there is a podiatrist whose license has been suspended for practicing while the license was under suspension (and for allowing unlicensed persons to perform physical therapy and submitting incorrect insurance forms). The previous suspension (and probation) was only for Grand Larceny in the Third Degree.

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