A nurse who stole clients' narcotics from an assisted-living facility in northeast Minneapolis and sold them to get money for a down payment on a second house has been fired and criminally charged, according to a report made public by the Minnesota Office of Health Facility Complaints on Friday. The nurse, employed by Edina-based Volunteers of America of Minnesota , admitted to police that he took about 440 Percocet tablets from three clients and sold them at a bar for $10 each, the report said. In one victim's case, the nurse refilled a Percocet bottle with Tylenol. A coworker noted that the patient complained that her medications were not managing her pain. The state determined the man, not his employer, was responsible for the thefts. Read the investigative report here.
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