What Happened
A former emergency-room nurse at Parkview Hospital Randallia in Fort Wayne was sentenced to two years, suspended to probation, after pleading guilty to stealing fentanyl meant for a patient in extreme pain and falsifying records of when and how much medication had been given through the hospital's automated dispensing system.
What the Record Shows
In April 2024, while assigned to a patient in extreme pain, recorded in the dispensing system and a nursing app that fentanyl doses were given while her badge activity and other records showed she was not in the patient's room and the patient never received the medication; when confronted, denied taking the drug herself Pleaded guilty to three of five charges; sentenced to two years in prison with two years suspended to probation, reported May 2026
Why It Matters for Diversion Programs
This entry comes from a primary licensing-board or law-enforcement record rather than a secondary aggregator, and it is recorded as reported. Board and news records are a lagging indicator - by the time a licensing authority or 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.