Petitioner: DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, BOARD OF NURSING
Respondent: FRANCES ROSCETTI
Judges: CHARLES C. ADAMS
Agency: Department of Health
Locations: Tallahassee, Florida
Filed: Dec. 05, 2001
Status: Closed
Settled and/or Dismissed prior to entry of RO/FO on Tuesday, January 22, 2002.
Latest Update: Jan. 20, 2025
STATE OF FLORIDA FILED
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Petitioner,
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FRANCIS ROSCETTI : CY- 4633 PL
Respondent.
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ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT
COMES NOW, Petitioner, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, by and through
its undersigned counsel and files this administrative complaint before the Board
of Nursing against the Respondent, Francis Roscetti, and in support thereof
alleges:
1. Petitioner is the state agency charged with regulating the practice
of nursing pursuant to Chapters 20, 456, and 464, Florida Statutes.
2. Pursuant to the authority of Section 20.43(3)(g), Florida Statutes,
the Petitioner has contracted with the Agency for Health Care Administration to
provide consumer complaint, investigative and prosecutorial services required by
the Division of Medical Quality Assurance, councils or boards, as appropriate,
including the issuance of emergency orders of suspension or restriction.
3. . Respondent is and has been at all times material hereto, a licensed
Practical Nurse in the State of Florida, having been issued license number
5147338.
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Respondent's last known address is 6302 W. McKinley, Phoenix,
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On or about November 2000, while employed by Sunbelt Staffing
Solutions, Inc. and assigned to Largo Medical Center, Respondent. practiced
below the minimal acceptable standards of prevailing nursing practice, by
inaccurately recording, altering or falsifying patient records, to wit:
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Respondent removed Demerol for patients
under her care, but the patients did not have
physician's orders for Demerol or the amount
of Demerol she removed to be administered.
_ Based on the foregoing, Respondent is subject to discipline
pursuant to section 464.018(1)(h), Florida Statutes, by unprofessional conduct by
failing to conform to the minimal acceptable standards of prevailing nursing
practice.
WHEREFORE, Petitioner respectfully request that the Board of Nursing
enter an Order imposing one or more of the following penalties: Revocation or
suspension of Respondent's license, imposition of an administrative fine,
issuance of a reprimand, placement of the Respondent on probation, costs,
and/or any other relief that the Board deems appropriate.
Signed tric oay of ( bu lod , 200 .
’ Robert G. Brooks, M.D.
Secretary, Department of Health
BY: Nancy Snurkowski, Chief Attorney
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On Behalf of the Agency for
Health Care Administration
COUNSEL FOR THE PETITIONER:
Elizabeth A. Hathaway, Staff Attorney
FBN: 0413143 ,
Agency for Health Care Administration
Allied Health Section
Post Office Box 14229
Tallahassee, Florida 32317-4229
(850) 414 - 8576
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Docket for Case No: 01-004623PL