"If I needed help those are the nurses that I'd want taking care of me as much as any other nurse," said James Ryser, IU Health's pain and chemical dependency program manager. Nurses who need drug treatment often go to a program at IU Health. So we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg." So we have 500 nurses, which is less than 1 percent of the nursing population. "We have 75 nurses in the intake process. "Currently we have 425 nurses in active monitoring," said ISNAP Program Director Chuck Lindquist. The Indiana State Nurse Assistance Program monitors nurses who have been identified as drug-dependent.
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"Not only the individual taking the drug, but those who are in her care."īarnard's nursing license has been suspended, but not before she had three separate methamphetamine incidents.
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"Any time you have a professional who is under the influence of any narcotic, someone is in trouble," said Henry County Sheriff Rick McCorkle. Also under arrest was 27-year-old Kasey Barnard – a nurse accused of purchasing meth approximately 20 times from Peters. As a result, 50-year-old Roy Peters was charged with dealing meth. They found 39 grams of methamphetamine, large amounts of cash and paraphernalia. Last November, the Henry County Drug Task Force conducted a raid at an apartment complex.
“We treat the addiction with compassion and then hold them accountable to their recovery program and then get them back to what they love doing and that’s nursing,” said Lindquist.INDIANAPOLIS - A new study suggests as many as 15,000 nurses in Indiana are fighting their own battle with drug and alcohol addiction. Everything from workplace monitoring, random drug screens, therapy, recovery meetings and more. Once a nurse is referred to ISNAP, there are several steps in place to get that person back in their scrubs. “There are about 125,000 nurses in the state of Indiana and 10 percent of those or about 12,000 nurses are in recovery or struggling from an addiction,” said Lindquist. The Indiana attorney general is also taking action against that nurse. In a separate case, a Richmond nurse recently failed a drug test after her own patient reported her for being under the influence. “If a nurse is in the throws of their addiction and they want medication what better place to work than a healthcare setting,” said Lindquist. The program encourages recovery along the way and protects the general population from intoxicated medical practitioners. ISNAP oversees and monitors nurses who are impaired on the job. “Often times they get rundown, they get overworked and they tend to look towards alcohol or drugs to cope,” said Chuck Lindquist, program director for the Indiana State Nurses Assistance Program or ISNAP. Now, the attorney general has filed a formal complaint against her.Ĭollins is just one example of a problem facing the medical profession across the country and in the Hoosier state. She used her own children’s names to score the drugs and she even forged a doctors signature along the way. Laura Collins, a Muncie nurse, was fired from a retirement home in 2013 for stealing over 400 opioid pain pills. However, there are programs in place to help nurses suffering from addiction. The Indiana Attorney General’s Office aggressively looks for it and recently went after the licenses of two local nurses. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind–It’s a bigger problem than you might think–some nurses using their position to abuse prescription drugs.
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