State regulators have revoked the license of a nurse who allegedly confessed to a drug addiction after leaving a bag full of used needles at the nursing home where she worked.
According to the Iowa Board of Nursing, Ranae Fallis of West Des Moines was working at an unspecified nursing home on Dec. 18, 2025, when she left her personal cosmetic bag on a medication cart at the facility. When a colleague reached into the bag, she was stuck by a needle, and further inspection showed the bag contained multiple uncapped “used syringes with visible blood traces and bent needles,” the board alleges.
The board asserts that when questioned, Fallis indicated that although she was struggling with drug issues and had been using cocaine, she had not been using any drugs while on duty. Fallis was fired four weeks later, according to the board…