What happened: A former ICU nurse accused of taking Fent from a critically ill patient’s IV told investigators she was responding to an alarm, but the patient’s significant other reported no alarm and questioned her actions, Port St.
Background: Lucie police said Tuesday. Police shared new details about the investigation into Leslie Ann Pope, 54, of Jupiter, including that the alleged encounters occurred June 24 and 25 — months before her Oct.
Cleveland Clinic confirmed Tuesday that Pope no longer works for the hospital system. “We take these allegations very seriously.
The individual no longer works with us, and we are fully cooperating with law enforcement,” Cleveland Clinic said in a statement to News. “Because this is an active investigation, we are unable to comment further at this time.” Police say the patient’s significant other watched Pope use a syringe to withdraw fluid from a Fent IV bag at Cleveland Clinic Tradition Hospital, place the syringe in her pocket and leave.
Pope was not assigned to care for the patient. “But again, she’s not even assigned to that patient, so there was no initial justification for her to even be in that room at that time addressing that patient,” said Brittany McNally, a public information officer for the Port St.
Lucie Police Department.
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