A nurse who allegedly gave someone else’s medication to a patient in a care facility without a prescription or other authorization faces numerous felonies.

Savannah L. Martin, 29, of Youngsville, is charged with endangering the welfare of a care-dependent person; 10 counts of possession with intent to deliver; recklessly endangering another person; and theft by unlawful taking.

Law enforcement agents, City of Warren Police in June and narcotics agents from the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General in July, responded to Cambridge Warren to investigate reported thefts of controlled substances, according to the affidavit of probable cause.

While there, agents from the AG office heard about and investigated an incident reportedly involving Martin, according to the affidavit.

Officers said Martin “was an employee who gave morphine medications to a patient without a doctor’s knowledge,” according to the affidavit.

An employee told investigators that Martin had been “mislabeling and reissuing controlled substances,” according to the affidavit.

The agent interviewed other employees at Cambridge, who said Martin had told them the patient had been prescribed morphine, that she had a verbal order from the doctor, had shown them how much to administer, and instructed them to administer the medication to the patient, according to the affidavit.

One of those employees told police that a supervisor told her after the patient’s death that the medication had not been authorized, according to the affidavit.

In the affidavit, police said records from Cambridge indicated that the patient was given 0.25 milliliters of morphine (Roxanol) nine times from Nov. 28 through 30, 2021, and that a control inventory sheet reportedly signed by Martin indicated that 0.25 milliliters could be administered to the patient every 30 minutes.

The employees told investigators that gave the patient the medication from a bottle with the patient’s name hand-written on it and the name of another patient — who had been prescribed Roxanol and later died — scratched out, according to the affidavit.

The doctor told investigators that he had not authorized nor ordered a morphine prescription for the patient, according to the affidavit.

Police spoke with a former Cambridge administrator who reportedly filed an incident report with the Pennsylvania Department of Health. She said the patient was in late stages of life and the patient’s health was declining, according to the affidavit. She began the process of having the patient placed into hospice care, but “she passed away so quickly and was never placed on hospice care,” she told investigators.

She “reported she believed (the patient) passed away so quickly because (the patient) was being given morphine that (the patient) was not supposed to receive and was not prescribed,” according to the affidavit. She said the patient’s “death was accelerated due to Savannah Martin.”

The former administrator told investigators that, when confronted, Martin told her the patient “needed it and hospice wasn’t getting it here fast enough” and “didn’t care and would do it again, that she contacted the family, (the doctor), and hospice care and they were all on board with her doing this.”

Investigators interviewed Martin in September. She told them she had been terminated from her employment at Cambridge in December.

She told investigators that, when she told the doctor that the patient had taken a turn for the worse and that hospice was not available for three days, the doctor told her to “go ahead and start administrating the Roxanol” from the deceased patient.

Martin told investigators she had the order for the Roxanol prescription at home, according to the affidavit.

“I would do it again,” she said, according to the affidavit. “I don’t care. I didn’t wrongfully medicate somebody. Was it originally prescribed to (the patient)? No. Was it the same medication? Absolutely. Did I hinder (the patient’s) health? No. But I wasn’t going to let (the patient) suffer and I would do it all over again.”

“No valid medical order authorizing the use of Roxanol has been located or provided by Savannah Martin,” police said in the affidavit.

Martin was arraigned Thursday before District Judge Raymond Zydonik and released on $25,000 unsecured bail.

A preliminary hearing is set for 10 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 29.