![]() Hibbard, who declined comment for this story, has entered a three-year recovery monitoring agreement with the Indiana State Nurses Assistance Program (ISNAP). Hospital records showed that she stole nearly 900 units of medication valued at about $72,000. The Richmond nurse reportedly admitted diverting and intravenously using drugs from the hospital for nearly half a year - at a rate of between one and 10 doses of pain medication a day. In addition, a strip search uncovered a blister pack containing a hydromorphone tablet, a tourniquet, a needle and two vials of hydromorphone in her underwear, according to the complaint. She also reportedly admitted that she had consumed another vial of fentanyl by squirting it into her mouth. 7 confronted Hibbard after receiving a complaint that she had pulled several doses of fentanyl and dilaudid that were never administered to patients.Īsked to empty the pockets of her scrubs, Hibbard produced seven vials containing fentanyl and hydromorphone, according to the complaint. The registered nurse, Michelle Hibbard, 43, allegedly was caught with nine vials of opioid pain medication while on duty at the hospital, which declined comment for this article.Īccording to an administrative complaint, the hospital's administrative coordinator on Jan. A good number of nurses are in recovery but a good number of them are not, he said.RICHMOND - The Indiana attorney general's office is seeking disciplinary action against the license of a nurse who admitted diverting $72,000 worth of opioids from Reid Health hospital. ISNAP usually only sees the nurses who get caught, program director Charles Lindquist told The Star Press earlier this year. ![]() There are currently more than 105,000 registered nurses and more than 26,000 licensed practical nurses in Indiana, an estimated 13,000 of whom are struggling with addiction. While many more Indiana nurses are addicted to marijuana, alcohol and pain killers than to meth or heroin, the Indiana State Nurses Assistance Program (ISNAP) has seen an increase in their use of heroin. State officials also have claimed that Henry County nurses Angelia Sparks-Jennings, 42, and Jerri Cole, 41, are a danger to the public after their arrest during a meth raid in the town of Mooreland. A trial on the common-nuisance charge is scheduled for August. The state nursing board voted 5-0 recently to suspend Barnard's license, calling her a clear and immediate danger to the public if allowed to continue to practice. Three days later, a random drug screen returned positive for meth and amphetamines. 12, Barnard was fired from Especially Kidz Health & Rehab, a nursing care facility for special needs children in Shelbyville, for stealing an entire box of insulin safety syringes. She continued to practice after the arrest. Barnard reportedly admitted to police that she had purchased meth at the apartment about 20 times. Six months later, she was arrested in Henry County on a charge of visiting a common nuisance - an apartment she was visiting when police conducted a raid and found 34 grams of meth, nine tablets of pain killers, a digital scale, large amounts of cash and drug paraphernalia.Īnother person who was visiting the apartment told police that Barnard had smoked meth before officers arrived with a search warrant. Barnard, 27, Rushville, was terminated from Reid in May of 2015 after nodding off at work and then failing a drug screen that returned positive for amphetamines and meth, according to the Indiana State Board of Nursing. RICHMOND - The license of a registered nurse who worked at Reid Hospital and Health Care Services has been suspended after three separate methamphetamine incidents.
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