News Summary

• Anesthesia staff noticed a nurse was slurring his words and struggling to stay awake.
• In the days that followed, the nurse failed a drug test and was fired.
• The nurse later admitted that for months he had pilfered and abused fentanyl left over after surgeries.
• The hospital uses the newest line of defense against drug diversion: Sentri7.
• The software is designed to detect missing drugs faster than any human can.
• But for months at Erlanger, it failed to raise alarms, overlooking missing drugs and other “inconsistencies” that “should have been flagged,” the nursing board’s order states.