Nurse’s Suspension Stands in Case Over Alleged Fentanyl Deaths

An Ohio nurse, who administered fentanyl to two terminally ill patients on a doctor’s orders, failed to overturn a nursing board’s sanction for his role in the patients’ deaths.

Wesley Black wasn’t entitled to immunity under an Ohio law that protects medical professionals from liability for administering a medication for the purpose of providing comfort care that also could have the effect of hastening a patient’s death, the Ohio Court of Appeals, 10th District said.

Because the doctor, William Husel, ordered doses of fentanyl and another drug that “were grossly in excess of any amounts” that could reasonably be considered ...