This is the first time I have heard this nures testimony as I saw her on Fox News this morning. I immediately questioned her story and motives when she mentions the incident(s) where the husband is in the room for 20minutes, and bottle of regular insulin is found, and then the pt is both hysterical and lethargic with a glucometer reading of "LO." On TV, she states she found several needle marks, insinuating injection sites of insulin. The nurse describes regular insulin as a fast acting insulin, and goes on to state on TV that she would be going into hypoglycemic coma, etc. As a physician, I have serious doubts about this scenario, simply based on the fact that regular insulin does not work in only 20 minutes, but more like 2 hours. Now if it were given IV, this would be a different story, but the fact that she is in a long term home makes it unlikely that she would have it in place. The nurse points out several "needle marks" on her body, so she is implying a subcutaneous injection, which as I have said, simply cannot work that fast. Furthermore, I have never seen a patient both lethargic and crying hysterically as she described on TV.
The rest of her allegations sound very fantastic, especially as there are no corroborating stories. And if she were so concerned about this patient and had such postive interactions while the patient was under her care, why not be more outspoken earlier on? Needless to say, count me as a very skeptical of her testimony. At least she got to appear on TV...