title: A nurse executive's nightmare. The rogue nurse.
abstract: An overview of rogue behavior by nurses is presented: drug diversion, posing as a nurse without a license sexual predator behavior and murdering patients. Several vignettes are given. Suggestions on how to recognize these behaviors and prevent these situations from happening follow.
authors.affiliation: East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Tranbarger
mesh_terms: D003415:Crime / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005607:Fraud / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D008318:Malpractice; D009718:Nurse Administrators; D009740:Nursing Staff; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory; D011363:Professional Impairment