Neonatal nurse arrested for selling drugs denies charges

There are board of nursing diversion programs in every state, including Oregon.  It is sad but true, many nurses struggle the same as the populations they serve.  She MIGHT be able to salvage her license one day, but never her reputation :(  Good luck honey...you're gonna need it. 

Disgrace to the profession, not ready to be clean yet as she is still blaming others and not taking responsibility for her own actions.  How sad for her, her family, and employer.  Hope she gets the help she needs and hopefully not one baby was hurt by her abuse.  

It looks like Flubber is blubbering!

 

A College Educated crackhead, how disgusting. I have this advance learning degree from college. What am I going to do? I got it, I am going to be a crackhead. You can put college into a bumbarse, but guess what, they are still a dumbarse!!! Get her away from our children!!!!!!!!

"A Beaverton nurse charged with selling heroin and meth told KATU News Thursday night she never put her young patients in danger."   So did she just admit to selling heroin and meth? Just never put her patients in danger. Patrick Preston in the house, way to go!!!!!!

One would think those working around her would have known something.  Did they look the other way?

I’m sorry you’re a drug addict, and you blew it, that sucks.  At least you and your career were the only things affected by your addiction (actually that’s not true; the whole community is always affected by addiction). It’s time to accept what you did and concentrate on getting yourself clean for good and moving on. You can still have a good life if you work hard to overcome this.

We were there for 4 months Jan 2010 -- 1# 5oz...  born at 24 weeks....  so unsettling this happened -- we put so much trust and faith in the staff.

"I never sold drugs (chuckles)..." 

 

Not a vote of confidence from me. I'm sorry...but when you are doing drugs, even as a "recreational outlet" and are involved in the medical field, those drugs are in your system for a long time. The cravings will get the better of you. The damage is done, and the nursing license will need to be revoked. 

She lies. You're a doper, admit it. Lying only makes you less trustworthy than you already are. There's no possible way you were a meth head by night and an unimpaired nurse by day. The effects of meth last longer than 24 hours. No one will ever look at you as someone that's rehabilitating until you can at least be honest. 

She has to many chins to be a hard core meth user

As the mom of a child who spent 8 weeks in the St. V's NICU after being born 13 weeks early at 1lb and 5 oz... this story makes me sick.  You have to put so much faith in the people that are caring for your baby, and to think that there may be people who are abusing drugs or alcohol that have no more concern for how thier personal actions could affect their ability to provide the best care for your child... that makes me angry.  And, unfortunately it shines a bad light on the others in the profession who actually would never, ever put their patients at risk in this manner. 

I don't buy her little sob story for a moment - the police aren't going to get a warrant to search the home of a small-time user.  There is a reason they expected to find the drugs in her home when they did - she is charged with delivery, which means they probably made a buy from her.  That makes her a drug dealer by definition of law.

>' "I've never sold drugs, no. And no, I have never been on drugs when I've been at work, no. Patient safety is extremely important to me and I would never, ever risk one of those tiny babies’ lives, ever."

 

Ms Harp, one of the most powerful components of addiction is denial. Meth and Heroin are not drugs that only affect you when you are actively using them. Studies have shown that effects can last for up to 2 days after your last 'hit'. While I do believe that you never knowingly, intentionally mixed your use and your job, it's simply impossible for you to say that they never crossed paths. There is just no way that I would want an addict, 'sober' or not, working on my neonatal child. I suspect that you would find that the vast majority of parents would feel the same way. 

 

One of the cornerstones of rehab is accountability. A willingness to realize and accept that your choices have affected others. Another is to accept that you have no power over the addiction, or drug. Hopefully, this series of events will bring you to that place, and help you to make better choices about who you spend your time around. If your boyfriend, and someone who stays the night at your house are using, it's unlikely that you will remain sober. I'm saddened by your relapse, and my prayers are with you in your rehabilitation. 

 

Recovery is a lifelong process. This is just a step in that process. A turn in the road is only the end of a journey if you fail to make the turn. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

hopefully she is now unemployed

Someone needs a lot of help!!

Why should she even bother with lying about it? Some of the oldest and most debunked excuses in the book and she goes crying to the news like the people will rally behind her! Good grief. When the drug test comes up positive she will no doubt be fired from St. Vincent's. There are tons of nurses (like me) scrambling for jobs. Why keep a junkie???

The drugs aren't mine, they belong to someone else. And I never used drugs...well, at least when I was working. At least not that I remember, because I am in rehab now.

 

You, nurse, are not exactly filling me with confidence.

Wow. How many times is she denying her reality here. She would never. No she never. Ever. No not her. She only "relapsed" two weeks - so that means something or another - but really what does that mean - seeing how she admits she is such a train wreck she "relapsed" on heroin and meth. Yeah - she's not at fault. She didn't endanger a soul. Her profession never suffered. Right. Seems reasonable. Sure. Never. Ever. 

 

She knew better. Of course. SHE RELAPSED. Of course. And as to contracting to work with the very most vulnerable babies - she sure as heck did not have to do that. Relapsed or not. 

 

She coulda just NOT been a nurse. If all she was intent on doing her adult life  - was first getting herself addicted to HEROIN AND METH. And then relapsing and choosing a life addicted to HEROIN AND METH A SECOND TIME AROUND. With drugs, drugs, drugs, in her home. Her home. Her home. 

 

But, of course - that's all not any of her fault. They teach you that at AA and NA, right? Right...