Nursing Assistant Overdoses Elderly Patient with Insulin
In many of the larger nursing homes and care facilities, a nursing home employee will sometimes see hundreds of patients a day. They are in charge of giving the correct medications to the patients and keeping track of what different ailments the patients suffer from.
A nursing assistant has been charged with second-degree murder after she allegedly gave a healthy non-diabetic patient an injection of insulin, which sent the elderly woman into a coma. The nursing home assistant had used the elderly woman’s credit card 10 days later before she had died. The nursing assistant had withdrawn several thousands of dollars according to state officials. She was charged with 16 counts of financial exploitation and attempted financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult in connection with just the credit card use. The charges of murder will have her facing 20 years to life without parole if convicted; the abuse of a vulnerable adult charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years.
It is a shame that this nursing assistant used the medications she was entrusted with to harm another patient. Most elderly patients are unable to realize what is going on and have no choice but to trust their surroundings and the people around them. This nursing assistant was heartless about this horrific act, and had the audacity to steal from the elderly woman after she had attempted to kill her.
