Alice Grant lived at Aidan House, a care home in Gateshead in Northeastern England. Due to her dementia and past strokes, she was dependent on the nursing staff for all her needs and could become frustrated with her predicament. Enter Alison Firth, a nurse with 16 years’ experience and a less than stellar job history. Alison didn’t like Alice; she required a lot of care and, frankly, Alison couldn’t be bothered, so she did the unthinkable: She gave Alice an overdose of Heminevrin and was confident that no one would suspect her. She was wrong. Unlike Alison, her colleagues actually cared about the patients, and they called the police.

Sources:

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/7106595.nurse-lied-lied---beat-checking-system/

https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/articles/killer-medical-professionals-uk

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/7085944.struck-off-evil-nurse-killed-resident/

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https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2001/06/08/nurse-denies-killing-elderly-resident-to-ease-workload/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/introduction/doubleeffect.shtml

https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/24366248.murderer-alison-ramsay-jailed-stealing-shared-earth/

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For almost twenty years, Vickie Dawn Jackson had been caring for the residents in the two-stoplight town of Nocona, Texas. But on December 11, 2000, 34-year-old Nurse Vickie filled a syringe with mivacurium chloride and picked the first of the many patients she would go on to kill. In a little over two months, Vickie administered fatal injections to at least 10 patients. Her classic small-town motive? Revenge. Vickie had had enough of difficult patients and their self-absorbed families, and she was hell-bent on righting any perceived wrong made against her or her family. Sources:

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2018/020098s019lbl.pdf

https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/angel-of-death/

https://www.oxygen.com/sins-of-the-south/crime-news/small-town-texas-serial-killer-hospital

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna15119953

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/angel-of-death-at-work-in-texas/

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna15142948

https://www.cnn.com/2002/US/07/17/texas.nurse.deaths/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/digging-up-the-dead/

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca5/04-11394/04-11394-cv0.wpd-2011-02-25.html

https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/extreme-cold-weather-dangers/#:~:text=Especially%20in%20older%20adults%2C%20it,pay%20attention%2C%E2%80%9D%20he%20says.

Megan Jean Haines moved to Australia from her native South Africa searching for a better life, but instead of working hard to achieve that life, her bad attitude, unwillingness to do the required work, and contempt for her patients resulted in numerous misconduct charges and a license suspension. After her license was reinstated, her conduct didn’t change. When she was told that several patients had complained about herbehavior, she made the decision to use what she thought of as the “perfect weapon” and inject the patients with insulin.

Sources:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/dec/16/former-nurse-megan-haines-jailed-for-27-years-for-killing-two-aged-care-residents

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-03/nurse-guilty-of-murdering-two-patients-nursing-home-ballina/7987084

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-12/nurse-accused-of-double-murder-had-boasted-knowing-how-to-kill/7926952

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nurse-megan-haines-found-guilty-of-murdering-two-women-in-nsw-nursing-home-20161103-gsh5cn.html

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