LAS VEGAS — A former nurse who authorities say killed himself shortly before exploding two powerful bombs targeting his former boss in a rural Nevada town had previously been investigated for unaccounted morphine at the hospital where he worked, state documents indicate.
The state said it investigated Glenn Franklin Jones for two incidents in 2015 involving morphine at Grover C. Dils Medical Center in Caliente, where Jones had worked in recent years.
The investigation indicated that Jones in July and August 2015 had obtained morphine syringes for patients but failed to document whether the drug was administered, a violation of protocol.
Jones had his nursing license revoked for unprofessional conduct by the Nevada State Board of Nursing in April for a period of five years, the documents state.
Jones had been notified of the case against him and summoned in February but failed to appear at the March hearing before the revocation was ordered.
Lincoln County Sheriff Kerry Lee said his office wasn’t notified by the hospital about missing medication or asked to investigate, and it didn’t have any reports of any past conflicts between Jones and Joshua Cluff, his supervisor.
Jason Bleak, Dils hospital administrator, declined to comment on the nursing board investigation but said broadly that the hospital reports all possible cases of nursing misconduct to the board.
Bleak said Jones voluntarily resigned from his position in August 2015 and had in the year before that voluntarily cut back his schedule, working just part-time.
