A nurse in Oklahoma pleaded guilty to a felony charge of tampering with patients’ pain medication, authorities said Tuesday.
Rebecca Holloway, 32, of Oklahoma City, reportedly “admitted to stealing fentanyl and hydromorphone intended for intensive care patients while she was employed at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Mercy Hospital in Ardmore, Oklahoma,” a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) statement said. Holloway reportedly confessed to swapping out the pain medications with tap water despite knowing that the patients required the drugs for acute pain and distress.
Holloway reportedly would extract the fentanyl out of the vials using syringes “and it would appear she went in the patient’s bathroom and injected it herself to feed her addiction,” Mark Woodward, spokesperson for the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics, said, per KOCO News.
Holloway pleaded guilty on Aug. 31 to…
