Nurse who stole morphine ‘protected’

A NURSE who blew the whistle on a colleague she believed was stealing morphine from seriously ill patients claims the wrongdoer was protected by “higher-ups” and is still practising.

Nurse who stole morphine ‘protected’

Kay Garvey, a member of the Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) executive council, said she was part of a group of nurses working at an acute unit in the Midlands who were victimised after complaining about a colleague they believed was taking the drugs herself rather than administering them to patients.

“We discovered the nurse was substituting other drugs for morphine and taking the morphine herself.”

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