Derrick v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

The petitioner, William Derrick, appeals from an order of the State Board of Nurse Examiners (Board) which revoked his license to practice as a registered nurse.

The petitioner had been a registered nurse for three years when, on October 26,1976, while employed by St. Clair Hospital in Pittsburgh, he was arrested on *545charges that he had fraudulently obtained from the hospital a small amount of a controlled substance, morphine sulphate, by listing the names of non-existent patients on hospital requisition forms. He was convicted of theft, misrepresentation, tampering with…