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Hospice nurse, previously cited for alcohol in hospital, is sanctioned • Iowa Capital Dispatch [1]
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Date: 2025-07
An eastern Iowa nurse previously sanctioned for possessing alcohol while on duty in a hospital is facing new sanctions from the Iowa Board of Nursing.
Board records indicate Brittany Russell Anderson of Davenport was charged last year with engaging in unethical conduct or practices harmful to the public by performing nursing services beyond her scope of practice. A hearing on the matter was held April 9, 2025.
According to the findings of the board, Anderson was working as a hospice nurse in March 2024 when the board received a complaint from her employer — which, the board records indicate, was Compassus’ Davenport Hospice.
The board alleges the company reported Anderson had been fired after creating a purported transcription of a physician’s telephone order for patient treatment without actually speaking to the physician, Dr. Scott Eberly.
The board alleged Anderson had falsely informed a hospice nurse she had spoken with Eberly. When the nurse called Eberly to confirm the order, she learned from Eberly he hadn’t talked to Anderson. Eberly was upset over the order and subsequently contacted Anderson’s employer to discuss the issue.
Anderson allegedly admitted she had written the order without speaking to Eberly, but at her hearing explained that in March 2024 she was working seven days on and seven days off as a hospice nurse and was too busy to properly complete all of her patient-treatment documentation.
After the hearing, the board voted to suspend Anderson’s license. Although the board’s order does not specify the length of the suspension, it does state that she will be eligible for reinstatement only after completing an unspecified number of hours of continuing-education training in ethics.
Once her license is reinstated, it will be placed on probation for one year, according to board records.
In 2021, the board charged Anderson, then known as Brittany Russell, with engaging in behavior contrary to professional decorum and committing an act that might adversely affect a patient.
The board alleged that while working at an unspecified hospital in 2021, Anderson “had alcohol in her possession while on duty” and, that day, administered medication to a patient that was “in excess of what was ordered.” The board subsequently ordered her to complete seven hours of continuing education training in ethics and medication errors.
State and county records indicate Anderson was working at Davenport’s Genesis Medical Center at the time of the alleged incident.
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