A female nurse at Taoyuan Hospital pretended to be a doctor to write doctor's orders and punish them for patients' or her own use. She was sentenced to 9 months in prison and probation.

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[Reporter Yang Guowen/Taipei Report] A female nurse surnamed Lin at Taoyuan Hospital of the Ministry of Health and Welfare was found to have injected medicines for patients without authorization, pretended to be doctors, forged medical orders, prescriptions, and took medicines from the hospital to patients or for herself. Not only was she sent to the court for punishment for the crime of forging documents in violation of the Doctors Law and the Criminal Law, but she was also sent to the disciplinary court for trial by the Ministry of Health and Welfare as it was deemed necessary for punishment. A half-year leave of absence may also be appealed.

The Ministry of Health and Welfare referred and pointed out that the female nurse surnamed Lin in Taoyuan Hospital did not have the qualifications of a doctor. In 2009 and 2010, she used someone else's seal to issue a doctor's note, and changed the content of the DNR (denial of cardiopulmonary resuscitation or life-support medicine) without authorization. After Taoyuan Hospital found out about the project and other behaviors, it thought it was a serious matter, so they warned her and provided strict counseling.

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Unexpectedly, on October 1, 2012, the female nurse surnamed Lin still used Dr. Zhuang's medical (computer) operating system account password without the consent of the doctor surnamed Zhuang in the hospital to write a prescription for "Brown Mixture soln l20ml" and use it by herself. , and opened a "Kenalog l tube" prescription for patients to use.

On November 11, 2012, Ms. Lin, who was on duty in the night shift, took medicines from the first working car in Ward 6A without a medical order, and injected the controlled drug "Midazo 5mg" into the patient. After being discovered, Lin Nv confessed and made a written statement to promise not to commit another crime.

What is exaggerated is that on May 21, June 24, and July 9, 2020, Lin Nv took advantage of the opportunity to work as an outpatient nurse, and without the consent of the doctor, used a doctor surnamed Wu from the Department of Pediatrics and a doctor surnamed Zou from the Department of Psychiatry in the same hospital. In the name of doctors and others, they wrote prescriptions in the medical operation system, forged medical orders and electromagnetic records of prescription papers, and took the medical orders and other paper copies to go through the price approval operation with unknowing Taoyuan Hospital staff and obtained medicines for their own use. Hospital seized.

After the investigation by Taoyuan Hospital, Lin was accompanied by the director of the Political Affairs Office and surrendered to the ICAC.

The Taoyuan District Prosecutor's Office will sue her for the crime of forging documents in violation of the Doctors Act and the Criminal Law. The Taoyuan District Court sentenced her to 6 months and 5 months in prison for each of the two crimes, and both of them will be subject to fines. 270,000 yuan, probation for 2 years.

Taoyuan Hospital also accused Ms. Lin of carrying out medical services without authorization, and impersonating a doctor to forge medical orders, prescriptions, and inspection sheets, etc., in violation of the Civil Service Disciplinary Law, and was transferred to the disciplinary court for trial.

Lin Nv expressed her remorse and regret, arguing that "I remind myself to do the right thing every day", and asked for a lighter sentence.

The disciplinary court held that, since 2009, Lin Nv had been prescribing medical prescriptions without authorization, and since then, without the consent of doctors, she has injected medicines for patients, issued medical orders, prescribed prescriptions, and received medicines from the hospital without authorization. Giving it to patients or for their own use not only violates the provisions of the criminal law, forgery of documents, physician law, and pharmaceutical affairs law, but also damages the correctness of many doctors, controlled drug management systems, and hospital management. The violation is serious. He should be punished. Considering that his violations in 2010 were related to the death of his family members and his long-term depression, he was sentenced to a six-month suspension and could appeal.