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Disciplinary Action of Thomas Herwick in Alaska

Name:
Thomas Herwick
State:
Alaska
Agency:
Alaska Board Of Nursing
Occupation:
Registered Nurse
Case Number:
2300-04-03
Action/Sanction:
Surrender of License
Action/Sanction Date:
07/31/2008
Details:
Surrender due to investigation concerning negligently practicing beyond his scope of practice by writing a physician's order for the administration of a schedule II controlled substance, morphine, to a terminally ill cancer patient in the patient's medical records without an actual physician's order, increasing the dosage and frequency in which he administered several of the morphine boluses to the patient without a physician's order, failing to maintain a record for the patient which accurately reflected the nursing problems and interventions for the patient, and discontinuing the patient's oxygen without a physician's order, knowing it would hasten the patient's death.

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