Jacksonville nurse arrested after morphine unaccounted for

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A registered nurse at a Southside hospital was arrested after a narcotic was unaccounted for during an audit, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.

Brittany Norman, 32, a former nurse at Memorial Emergency Center on San Jose Boulevard, was arrested Thursday and charged with two counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud, the police report stated. Her supervisors had received complaints about her behavior.

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An audit was done on medications Norman had pulled, dating back to Aug. 15, according to the Sheriff's Office. One was a dose of morphine that Norman listed as having been given to a patient on a doctor's verbal order.

The doctor signed a statement saying he never gave that ordered. The hospital released a statement:

We immediately notified the Sheriff’s Office and have since terminated the individual.  We are assisting law enforcement as the investigation continues.