A nurse has been charged with homicide after providing a deadly dose of painkillers to a patient in her care. The nurse cared for the patient and provided drugs that were not part of the patient’s prescription medications for any time that she was a patient at the nursing home. The family filed a lawsuit on 5 counts holding the nursing home responsible for negligence in hiring and overseeing the nurse who killed their loved one.
“We had hoped that law enforcement officials would have more aggressively pursued a course of action to charge the person or persons who were involved in this tragedy and that an independent monitor would have been appointed,” said the family’s attorney. “But unfortunately neither of these issues have come to pass. Therefore we find it necessary to pursue the matter in civil proceedings.” For more, read the story.
