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Nurse Accused of Stealing Pain Medication
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Melissa Fannin, RN, was found to be accessing more hydromorphone than any other nurses in her unit at Community Hospital Anderson in Indiana. Further investigation revealed she was “excessively wasting full doses of controlled substances.” After colleagues noticed injection marks on her right arm and noticed her dozing off at work, she admitted to having an addiction problem, and drug testing revealed morphine, oxycodone, and oxymorphone in her system. She faces three felony charges for the stolen medications.
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Nearly 400 Travel to US Capitol for Better Working Conditions
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Members of Congress heard from nearly 400 nurses on June 15 that it’s long past time to address the national nurse staffing crisis. The nurses, all members of the American Nurses Association, traveled to the Capitol to demand three major actions that would begin to address the problems contributing to ”burnout, workplace violence, mandatory overtime and barriers to full practice authority,” among other issues contributing to the staffing crisis.
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Nurses Save Coworker’s Life with CPR
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Oncology nurse Litonya Bennett, RN, collapsed at work on her way to a call to the nurse’s station at Ascension Providence Hospital. Her colleagues immediately jumped into action, providing her CPR for more than 48 minutes—long past when the doctor asked if they should call it. After seven shocks from the defibrillator combined with
the CPR, Bennett was stable enough to transfer to ICU, where she was placed on ECMO. Read the entire story here.
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