Did nurse take patients’ painkillers? Deputies arrest a registered nurse after he’s found incoherent, his elderly patients lacking drugs
Saturday, December 3rd, 2005.
Palm Harbor, FL – By the end of his nursing shift at Countryside Healthcare Center, Fredrick Winfield was slurring his words.
Co-workers said he was too incoherent to explain the rubber band around his arm.
Or the syringe in his pocket.
Or why two of his elderly patients had not gotten their prescriptions.
During his overnight shift Thursday, the 33-year-old registered nurse ate the narcotic gel off two pain patches intended for an 80-year-old burn victim and a 63-year-old woman with muscular dystrophy.
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