STORM LAKE, Iowa (KCRG) - A Clay County nurse convicted of stealing more than $115,000 worth of property from a home-health patient has agreed to surrender her license.

Earlier this year, the Iowa Board of Nursing charged Shari Lee Bents of Royal with committing an act that might adversely affect a patient’s welfare; committing an act that causes physical, emotional or financial injury to a patient; possessing or administering controlled substances without lawful authority; soliciting, borrowing, or misappropriating money or property from a patient, and being convicted of an offense that directly relates to the duties and responsibilities of the profession.

According to the board, from April 2024 to October 2024, Bents was employed by Stay In Home Care & Medical Staffing in the Storm Lak

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