Injustice at the Texas Board of Nursing

There is a very important case of a Family Nurse Practitioner, Bridget Yvette Hughes, who is "supervised" by Keith E Miller MD, former chairman of the Texas Medical Board Disciplinary Process Review Committee. In the first attached NON-disciplinary order, she admits to the forgery of over 50 Schedule II narcotics prescriptions.

Bridget Yvette Hughes non-disciplinary order with the Texas Board of Nursing

She voluntarily gave up her DEA number and prescriptive authority for a year. She wasn't supposed to represent herself as a nurse practitioner or allow herself to be represented as one.

During the year, my amateur private investigator, Tammy Herchek, visited Hughes as a patient on a day that Miller was not in the office.

Dr. Miller's office referred to her as a Nurse Practitioner; she introduced herself as a NP; although she had no prescriptive authority, she gave medication samples to Tammy without consulting her supervising physician. She also called in a prescription to the CVS pharmacy in Center, Texas. Pharmacist Lacory Miller, although he knew she did not have prescriptive authority, filled the prescription.

I reported Bridget Hughes to the Board of Nursing for violating several conditions of her order. I reported Dr. Miller to the Texas Medical Board for his failure to supervise Hughes adequately. I reported pharmacist Miller to the Texas State Board of Pharmacy for filling a prescription called in by a NP without prescriptive authority. No action was taken by any of the three boards.

In spite of having a complaint filed against Miller for inadequate supervision of Hughes, the BON has again assigned Miller to "monitor" her in a ridiculously lax "disciplinary order" which went into effect August 18, 2009.

Bridget_Hughes RN, Disciplinary Order

Part of the terms of the order are that she must practice nursing under a one year probation! They demand that she do other things related to her narcotic habit and associated felonious actions that she has failed to do repeatedly. They demand that Miller "supervise" her in such ways as he has repeatedly failed.

In Texas, anyone can file a complaint on a licensee of a medical board, nursing board, or pharmacy board. We need a persons other than Texas licensees to help us, because of retaliation and the need for publicity. Public complaints should be filed against Keith E Miller MD, Bridget Yvette Hughes FNP, and Lacory Miller with their respective licensing boards.