Nurse suspended after stealing morphine from patients

He also falsely recorded administering painkillers for patients not prescribed the medications, a tribunal hears.

A nurse has been sanctioned after repeatedly ‘misappropriating’ morphine from a regional ED, including doses intended for patients.

The WA State Administrative Tribunal said he stole a variety of painkillers on 34 occasions over a period of eight months, forging records and signing out medications that were often not prescribed for patients.