Transcription of Nurse Drug Diversion and Nursing Leaders’ Responsibilities
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ABSTRACTN urses who divert drugs pose significant threats to patient safety, but also become a liabilityto healthcare organizations and the Nursing department where the Diversion and Nursing leaders have a responsibility to ensure that security systems arein place to prevent Diversion and protect patients if Nursing impairment is suspected as aresult of drug Diversion . Nursing leaders must consider legal, regulatory, ethical,humanistic, and practical considerations in resolving this are the Nurse executive (NE)of a small, rural, critical care accesshospital in northeast WashingtonState.
Nurse diversion programs are critical for the profes-sion, and healthcare organizations must ensure nurses are treated, and a safe return to the workplace is fa-cilitated. As an impaired nurse, Ms Ingalls has now become a patient with a treatable condition, and the NE must ethically provide appropriate referral to a diver-
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