11/25/06
WHY NURSING HOMES ARE DANGEROUS PLACES
EXAMPLE #2
– LIMITED SECURITY BACKGROUND CHECKS ON EMPLOYEES
"PRETTY"
The following is based on the author’s personal knowledge and belief.

We will call this registered nurse, "Pretty", to conceal her real identity, even though her story has been on public record in one or two states, and newspaper headlines in at least four newspapers in the Midwest and New England.
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"Pretty" left Grammar school to try to attend an academy for aspiring nuns, in Enfield, CN. She stayed there only a relatively short period before realizing that "obedience", an aspiring nun’s "cross", was not one of her strong points.
She continued and completed her high school education at a local girls high school in Lowell, MA, called Keith Hall.

Shortly thereafter, she entered and completed two years of nurses’ training at St. Joseph’s hospital in Lowell. During this period, she was said to have attempted suicide by "drug overdose or misuse." She held various training hospital assignments, including a mental hospital, where she seduced a male patient. She became pregnant, and helped facilitate the release of the patient, after which they married.

The marriage did not last long after their child was born. "Pretty" complained that her new spouse was "delusional", and dysfunctional, even though he held down a regular job as a machinist for years.
During this period, she became employed part time at several hospitals, and NURSING HOMES in Lynn, Beverly, and Lowell, MA, from which she began to misappropriate various drugs with which she had experimented, while a student nurse.

All the while shunting her young baby son off, on unsuspecting and trusting acquaintances.

After leaving her husband, and forming close friendships with several drug users and addicts in MA, and NH, she moved to NH, where she habitually had weekend LSD and "pot parties", with transient truck drivers, itinerants, farmers, and drug dealers. All the while, she passed the responsibility of her young son, onto neighbors and relatives.

Finally the psychedelic bubble burst. She bought a Volkswagen, and she and her latest drug addicted boyfriend, headed west to California. They filled the car with stolen drugs from her nursing jobs, which they intended to sell, at high prices, on the west coast.

Unfortunately, they were consuming their own inventory on the way to California. By the time they got to the forests of Wisconsin, they decided to take their own lives through the use of carbon monoxide from the auto exhaust.
They were very fortunate, for a Wisconsin forest ranger found them before their drug induced self destruction was consummated.

They were held for a few days, but aparantly, attempted self destruction, is not a crime in Wisconsin, for they were released with all their ill gotten possessions.
Before they left the state, "Pretty", walked into a radio station, adjacent to a Wisconsin cornfield, "covered with blood". When asked by the station employees, what had happened, she responded that her boyfriend, had, "committed suicide".

She led them to the scene. A newspaper account of the corpse’s bloody spectacle, stated that " the body had more than fifty stab wounds, three to the heart, and the head was nearly severed"
Suicide ???

When a close relative who knew "Pretty" since childhood, was asked why she would "do" such a thing, the reply was, "he must have said something to aggravate her"

A soft-voiced young girl with a cherubic smile, and honey flavored personality, "Pretty" was obviously a "homicidal maniac".

Wisconsin’s ultra-liberal law, allowed "Pretty" to be judged, NOT GUILTY – by reason of insanity. The disturbing fact is, after a more gruesome murder than O.J, "Jack the Ripper", and most "serial killers", "Pretty" was released from her Wisconsin mental institution after only one year. Far less time than she had been abusing and stealing drugs.

She made a particular point, to have her name changed, by marrying an inmate for a short period, before reapplying for hospital and NURSING HOME positions.
Name change completed, aliases concealed, "Pretty" became an attractively employable nursing candidate. Her sweet and attractive countenance, and charm, disguised her extremely dangerous potential. To the horror of all who knew her story, "Pretty" was pronounced, "not a danger", and released to society with minimal supervision.

By concealing her background, "Pretty", was employed by more than eight hospitals and NURSING HOMES in a twenty year nursing history following her gruesome demonstration of her exceptional homicidal capabilties.
Hundreds of fragile patients, were under her control, while she held positions in, small and medium health care units. An astute maniacal personality would have no problem surreptitiously acquiring drugs from these venues.

Over the years, "Pretty" claimed to have acquired, chronic and degenerative diseases of fibromyalgia, morbid obesity, hypertension, and osteoarthritis,
requiring "physician shopping" and routine, multiple, heavy, painkilling regimens.

Despite her acknowledged history, she concealed from various physicians, that she has, frequently used and abused, both legal and illegal drugs. On occasions she would make statements, that she was not currently, abusing illegal drugs, but concealed and seldom made any admissions of her use or abuse of legal, prescribed, or stolen painkillers, to which she was hopelessly addicted.

As time and her drug dependance continued, the duration of her jobs got shorter and shorter. Was she being affected by her drug dependance so she was an ineffective nurse? Was she ever under suspicion for stealing some of her large drug consumption? Probably both, plus the fact that by the year 2000, she was laid off or fired from her last two jobs in NH, and applied for SSDI, based on her health issues. Even though she made the proper statements to qualify for a power wheelchair, she frequently cavorts from place to place using two large and exceptionally visible, shiny canes, which help her to generate sympathy wherever she goes.

She still has the danger disguising innocence, of the soft voice, and the cherubic smile They have been replaced, by the smile of a satisfied and confident inner demon. She's still pretty, and disarming, to any observer.
When she discovered the free ride of SSDI in 2000, "Pretty" no longer had a reason to work. She could pursue her addiction at government expense.
Many who knew her, breathed a sigh of relief when she no longer had access to the elderly, the fragile and the innocent, of the NURSING HOME environments.

Relatives and friends of NURSING HOME RESIDENTS,
PLEASE DO NOT ASSUME THAT YOUR LOVED ONES ARE SAFE