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A registered nurse at The Gardens of Cedar Rapids was caught on surveillance video footage stealing and consuming residents’ morphine and other painkillers while on duty. Despite clear signs of impairment, including staggering, slurred speech and falling asleep at work. The facility’s management failed to investigate reports of missing narcotics. The nurse’s intoxication from the medication was so severe that she required assistance to walk and was later found unconscious in her vehicle, putting vulnerable residents at risk.
The nursing home drug theft incident reported by Iowa Capital Dispatch underscores fundamental problems in nursing home employment practices. In March 2024, the facility was cited for failing to conduct adequate background checks on workers and faced substantial fines for various violations in 2023. The director of nursing’s admission claims she “forgot” to investigate missing morphine reports, demonstrating a critical lack of professional standards. This incident illustrates the urgent need for nursing homes to provide better protection to vulnerable residents by:
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This page has been written, edited, and reviewed by a team of legal writers following our comprehensive editorial guidelines. This page was approved by attorney Jeffery A. Pitman, who has more than 28 years of legal experience and handled thousands of personal injury cases while obtaining millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements in Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and New Mexico.
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