Maybe I'm just to naive to ever notice when it's going on around me, but the only experience I've ever had with a nurse that had diverted narcotics, was at a hospital I worked at about a year a half ago. The supervisor asked a bunch of us how we felt about working with a nurse that had her lic. flagged due to narcotic diversion. We all said fine, as long as she doesn't do it agian. Well, right after that a new new was hired onto the cardiac floor from 20+ years of OB...obviously we all knew it was her. About 3 months later, she was fired...go figure.