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Nurses’ Hearings Set Over Drug Doses for Patients Who Died
By: Associated Press
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Administrative hearings have been set for the 25 Ohio nurses accused of giving excessive painkillers to patients who died and not questioning the medication ordered by a doctor now charged with murder.
Those nurses from the Mount Carmel Health System in Columbus aren’t being criminally prosecuted but face possible discipline by the Ohio Board of Nursing.
The board says each nurse was entitled to request a hearing before any action is taken, and all of them did so. The first hearing is scheduled in February, and the last in March 2021.
For now, their licenses remain active. Mount Carmel won’t comment on individuals’ employment status but has said it fired some of the nurses involved.
The doctor, William Husel, has pleaded not guilty to 25 counts of murder.