What Happened
At a March 24 hearing in Reno, the State Board of Nursing found a licensed practical nurse guilty of withdrawing morphine from the medication dispensers of two patients at a rural hospital in Caliente without documenting what happened to the controlled substance.
The board stripped the nurse's license and barred reapplication for five years.
What the Record Shows
license stripped; barred from reapplying for five years
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: withdrew morphine from the medication dispensers of two patients without documenting what happened to the controlled substance. 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.