Former nurse charged with stealing medication

sara1981 · 08-20-2012, 05:39 PM

Former nurse charged with stealing medication
Former nurse charged with stealing medication | WTNH.com Connecticut

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WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) -- A former nurse was arrested and charged with stealing medication from her patients at a West Hartford assisted living community.

West Hartford police say 30-year-old Lisa Czarnecke, a former licensed practical nurse at the Hoffman SummerWood Community, was arrested on Saturday.

Police say Czarnecke stole narcotics tablets from one patient and replaced them with diabetes medication she took from another.

She has been charged with illegal possession of narcotics, second degree reckless endangerment and sixth degree larceny.

She was released after posting a $20,000 bond and is due in Hartford Superior Court on August 30.

Dan Tapper, a spokesman for Hebrew Health Car, which owns Hoffman SummerWood Community released the following statement:
"At Hebrew Health Care we take very seriously the safety and well-being of the people entrusted to our care. We have comprehensive policies and procedures in place to detect any issues that may arise as that care is being administered. Thanks to those policies we were able to identify and address this issue, and the person in question is no longer employed by Hebrew Health Care."

Lau2046 · 08-20-2012, 05:46 PM

They take nothing seriously. Nurses (and doctors) stealing medication, even patients medication is tolerated. When my mother was a working RN she reported another nurse she caught stealing meds from a patient. The nurse filed a complaint against my mother and went after her for discrimination and harassment. I mentioned this to a nurse years later that was seeing me for an appointment. She said this goes on all the time and that the best course of action was to do nothing because then you become a target. Really sick...can't say I'm glad my mother is still working. When you can't stand up for the patients without becoming a target yourself, what's the point of working in the medical profession?

sara1981 · 08-20-2012, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Lau2046

They take nothing seriously. Nurses (and doctors) stealing medication, even patients medication is tolerated. When my mother was a working RN she reported another nurse she caught stealing meds from a patient. The nurse filed a complaint against my mother and went after her for discrimination and harassment. I mentioned this to a nurse years later that was seeing me for an appointment. She said this goes on all the time and that the best course of action was to do nothing because then you become a target. Really sick...can't say I'm glad my mother is still working. When you can't stand up for the patients without becoming a target yourself, what's the point of working in the medical profession?

I agreed that!

My mom is also nurse but my mom always careful but she never steal medicine from patient neither but many million nurse and doctor know best not steal medicine from patient remind of Michael Jackson who died in 2009 and his doctor stripped medicine license for good reasons!

rockin'robin · 08-20-2012, 07:39 PM

Happens all the time...friend of mine had some pain pills (Loratabs) and her daughter stole them and put back Doan's pills (for back pain) after scratching the name off the pills....After taking 2 or 3 of the pills with no helpful effects for her pain, and she was throwing up....checked the pills and saw the "scratching offs" on the pills....

airportcop · 08-20-2012, 09:47 PM

Sad but very commonplace! When I worked at the hospital it was quite common for us to have to investigate missing narcotics. Sometimes the bad nurses would charge a drug to a dead patient. Others would inject sterile water in the patient and pull the patient's meds and inject themselves or inject into an empty vile that they kept on their person. I know about the last incident from a personal investigation where a nurse complained that another male nurse was going to the bathroom a lot and seemed to be throwing up! We caught him with the vile in his sock! Sadly enough many times the hospital wouldn't prosecute them but would put them in drug rehab. The ones that did get prosecuted usually lost their nursing license! We used to install hidden cameras in smoke detectors to catch them stealing and I also had to conduct the drug testing of whole units!

08-20-2012, 09:47 PM	#5 (permalink)
airportcop Registered User Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Springfield, MO Posts: 1,088	Sad but very commonplace! When I worked at the hospital it was quite common for us to have to investigate missing narcotics. Sometimes the bad nurses would charge a drug to a dead patient. Others would inject sterile water in the patient and pull the patient's meds and inject themselves or inject into an empty vile that they kept on their person. I know about the last incident from a personal investigation where a nurse complained that another male nurse was going to the bathroom a lot and seemed to be throwing up! We caught him with the vile in his sock! Sadly enough many times the hospital wouldn't prosecute them but would put them in drug rehab. The ones that did get prosecuted usually lost their nursing license! We used to install hidden cameras in smoke detectors to catch them stealing and I also had to conduct the drug testing of whole units! __________________ Romans 12:12 (NIV) Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.

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08-20-2012, 05:46 PM	#2 (permalink)
Lau2046 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Peabody, MA Posts: 1,695	They take nothing seriously. Nurses (and doctors) stealing medication, even patients medication is tolerated. When my mother was a working RN she reported another nurse she caught stealing meds from a patient. The nurse filed a complaint against my mother and went after her for discrimination and harassment. I mentioned this to a nurse years later that was seeing me for an appointment. She said this goes on all the time and that the best course of action was to do nothing because then you become a target. Really sick...can't say I'm glad my mother is still working. When you can't stand up for the patients without becoming a target yourself, what's the point of working in the medical profession?

08-20-2012, 07:39 PM	#4 (permalink)
rockin'robin Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Jacksonville, Florida Posts: 15,659	Happens all the time...friend of mine had some pain pills (Loratabs) and her daughter stole them and put back Doan's pills (for back pain) after scratching the name off the pills....After taking 2 or 3 of the pills with no helpful effects for her pain, and she was throwing up....checked the pills and saw the "scratching offs" on the pills....