Moses Lake Nurse Pleads Guilty to Tampering with Morphine

(Moses Lake, WA) -- A nurse from Moses Lake is pleading guilty to tampering with morphine medication. The U.S. Attorney's Office for Eastern Washington says 40-year-old Esther Tuller was working at Confluence Health when she used a syringe to remove morphine and injecting it into herself. According to authorities, there was at least one patient who was rushed to an emergency room after getting the saline instead of morphine.

Tuller will be sentenced in March.