You suspect a nurse is diverting narcotics. You ask her patient about his pain control and he states he has not received pain medications all day. His nurse says she has drugged him and also has it charted in the patient's medical record. What steps would you take to investigate this? If you found evidence that the nurse has diverted, where is this reported? What happens to the nurse?

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