A nurse in Bucks County holding both practical and professional nursing licenses entered into an agreed disciplinary resolution with the Pennsylvania State Board of Nursing. The entry appears in the Department of State's monthly listing of board disciplinary actions.
The grounds recorded by the board were unprofessional conduct through failure to conform to a quality standard of the profession, misappropriation of property from an employer or patient, and use of a controlled substance for other than an acceptable medical purpose. That combination is the pattern most board orders use to describe workplace drug diversion, though the entry itself does not name a drug or an employer.
The listing gives no detail on how the conduct came to light. Monthly board summaries of this period record the sanction and the statutory grounds without an investigative account, so the detection pathway is not documented.
The sanction was an indefinite suspension of no less than one year that was immediately stayed in favor of probation, alongside a $1,000 civil penalty and eight hours of continuing education. Because the suspension was stayed at the outset, the practical effect was supervised practice under probationary conditions rather than time away from the profession.