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Originally Posted by Nightengale212
This may be true for some professions, but I can tell you from 36 years working as an R.N. this is not the case with the nursing profession. I have witnessed many a colleague have their licenses suspended, a few permanently revoked, and one nurse I worked with served time after being convicted of stealing liquid morphine from a hospice patient. BTW, it was another nurse who witnessed the theft of the morphine, reported it, and her testimony at the trial led to the conviction.
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Your story about the nurse with the courage to do the right thing was wonderful but not always typical. You may recall the story of Charles Cullen who was "the most prolific killer in New Jersey (and possibly American) history." During his horrific rampage, everyone refused to do the right thing including nurses, doctors, administrators, etc. The story about him became a book entitled The Good Nurse.