A Rochester nurse, fired by the University of Rochester Medical Center, has been charged with criminal impersonation and felony drug possession.
The New York Attorney General’s Office says 34-year-old Siobhan Pollock had been fired from her job as a registered professional nurse at the URMC. She allegedly returned to the hospital in her scrubs and convinced another nurse to hand her a syringe of the narcotic painkiller Dilaudid. She then went into a bathroom, removed the drug and refilled the syringe with water before returning it.
Pollock was arrested for criminal impersonation and felony drug possession, something the attorney general’s office says she did to feed her own drug addiction.
She could be facing two-and-a-half years in prison if convicted.