Ahamed, I agree with you I cannot imagine why anyone would want to jeopardize their nursing license that one has worked so hard for. According to Monroe and Kenaga, “abuse and addiction rates are as high as 20% among practicing nurses” (2011, p. 504). One of my fellow peers that I went to school fell victim to the temptation of stealing pain medications from the patients on her unit. After nursing school, she would periodically call me out of the blue and we would chat like to time had passed. This was a woman that was similar to me many non traditional nursing students. I would have never guessed she would ever let the thought of stealing anything let alone narcotics. She worked on a unit with patients that were diagnosed with traumatic
