Former Nurse Charged With Murder in Death of 97-Year-Old Patient

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Nurse charged with murder stemming from an incident in which she gave 'something special' to a 97-year-old patient who died 5 days later. NurseTwitter

, typically used for anxiety, to Morris on April 30. He subsequently developed pneumonia and died on May 5.

According to the Kentucky Board of Nursing, which suspended Hunter's RN license on a temporary basis on Monday, she allegedly asked the on-duty physician and a nurse practitioner separately for a medication order to calm Morris, who had become agitated and aggressive. They denied Hunter's request, so she withdrewintended for another patient and administered it to Morris, the nursing board suspension order states.

When the charge nurse entered the room later, she found the patient in"respiratory distress with labored breathing and poor oxygen saturation. …X-rays would show that the aspiration from the substances ingested by the patient while in his condition caused the patient to develop aspirational pneumonia," the order continues.

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