Nurse sacked & taken to court for stealing pain relief for a headache

[Poppedmytyreffs]

As above. What are your thoughts? Will try to post a link now

No it’s OTC 🙄

@depends on the strength

@FurAndFeathers depends on the strength

Agree. Very likely a persistent offender

Fair enough. Then it’s certainly not always prescription medication.
do you know it was prescription strength that she took

I thought he sounded like a total twat as well.

It surely makes sense that you can't have staff just helping themselves to stock

I don’t think the surgeon sounds like a dick. If he asked someone for one, or to get him one, he’d probably be told ‘it’s not my job’ by someone 🙄

I wouldn’t want a surgeon with a thumping headache operating on me anyway. So list would need to be delayed anyway/ he would need to go home sick if didn’t get the medication

Or, he could bring his own paracetamol with him, like the rest of us do. Or ask a colleague if they can lend him a couple from their own stash. There is no need to take from hospital stock.

@FurAndFeathers

do you know it was prescription strength that she took

It's a reasonable assumption to make that it was given the outcome was dismissal.

Me neither, they actually give me headache and nobody believes me!

Buy them from a supermarket only 29p

There was a nurse who used to wander the wards at our local hospital in uniform asking for tramadol for another ward. They always gave her it. She didn’t even work there.

They do have to be strict with stuff like this because this type of stuff happens

I don't understand why anyone would think it's OK to take medication from work, there has to be a zero tolerance policy IMO so it's a sackable offence regardless of what it was.

There must be more to this story.

Someone obviously noticed that they were getting through the co-codamol a bit too quickly. The hospital wouldn't bother counting the tablets and getting permission to secretly film the staff for no good reason. Getting permission to secretly film staff would probably mean that they were concerned enough to get the police involved before they knew it was definitely her.

I have worked as a nurse for nearly a decade. Everyone knows that the official policy is that you can't help yourself to hospital stock. If you need paracetamol, you either buy it - I always have some in my locker, or borrow some from a colleague.

Years ago people would help themselves to ibuprofen or paracetamol, but not now.

Well yeah because if it’s acceptable to take a couple of paracetamol it’s not that much of a leap to take a couple of codeine tablets … and then it’s not that much of a leap to take a couple of tramadol. Might as well get stuck into the morphine whilst they’re at it

@UseAMuckySock

I'd say it's a leap, and would be hard to do as tramadol and morphine are controlled drugs where I work.

But yes, a blanket policy of no meds for personal use is for the best.

Oh yes, they did move tramadol into CD category didn’t they. It’s been years since I worked in a hospital (thankfully)

Please tell me how you would know if they had taken codeine before treating you?

And you're basing that on what medical qualifications?
I take it for headaches

Eyes are pinned, firstly. The rest depends upon how much they've had. Can't actually tell if they've had codeine or morphine, but it's absolutely obvious they've taken an opiate.

Just like it is when you take one. Can't argue with physiogical responses.

I'm pretty sure if they were off their tits on codeine other staff would notice.

I've taken codeine and worked, I'm sure you'd rather me take a medication to cure my pain before looked after you.

You can buy the lowest strength co-codamol from pharmacies but the higher strengths are only available on prescription

On Nhs website - why not paracetamol for a headache - no restrictions there

If you read the article, they put a camera because drugs kept disappearing. It wasn't the first time and it's clear there's more to it.

There is always more to these stories