The Iowa Board of Pharmacy oversees state-licensed pharmacies, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in Iowa. (Photo by Getty Images; logo courtesy the State of Iowa)
A central Iowa nurse with ties to an Ames health spa is facing disciplinary charges from a second state licensing board.
The Iowa Board of Pharmacy has charged Antoinette Thompson of Pleasant Hill with committing acts that would render her Controlled Substances Act registration inconsistent with the public interest; knowingly making misleading, deceptive, untrue or fraudulent representations in the practice of pharmacy or engaging in unethical conduct or practices harmful or detrimental to the public; forging or altering a prescription; failing to maintain a separate registration for each location where she distributed or dispensed controlled substances; dispensing a controlled substance without a prescription; possessing a controlled substance not obtained directly from a valid prescription, and dispensing medication not based on a valid patient-prescriber relationship…