What Happened
A contract registered nurse at Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem pleaded guilty in December 2021 to one count of tampering with a consumer product.
According to court documents and federal prosecutors, the nurse removed vials of injectable hydromorphone from an automated dispensing cabinet machine, injected the drug into herself, replaced it with saline, used glue to reseal the vials, and returned them to locked drawers The nurse was sentenced to four years and six months in federal prison, a $3,000 fine, and three years of supervised release; her nursing license is suspended.
What the Record Shows
Pleaded guilty to one count of tampering with a consumer product; sentenced to four years and six months in federal prison, a $3,000 fine, and three years of supervised release; nursing license suspended.
Why It Matters for Diversion Programs
This entry comes from a news source rather than a federal enforcement release, and it is recorded as reported: Removed vials of injectable hydromorphone from an automated dispensing cabinet machine, injected the drug into herself, replaced the drug with saline solution, used glue to replace the lids, and returned the contaminated vials to locked drawers.. Board and news records are a lagging indicator - by the time a licensing authority or a reporter learns of a diversion, the diversion was normally detected internally first, which makes each entry a signal that inventory reconciliation, waste observation or dispensing oversight failed earlier.