AMES, Iowa ( IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH ) - A central Iowa nurse is facing a series of disciplinary charges related to drugs and the alleged repeated failure to practice nursing with reasonable skill.

Iowa Board of Nursing records show the board has charged advanced registered nurse practitioner Antoinette Thompson of Pleasant Hill with eight separate regulatory violations. Thompson is the former medical director for a health spa in Ames.

The disciplinary charges include failing to evaluate, document or report the status of a patient; committing an act that might adversely affect a patient’s welfare; misappropriating medications or supplies of a patient; being involved in the unauthorized manufacture or distribution of a controlled substance; prescribing, dispensing or distributing drugs in

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