An Iowa nursing home worker who was criminally charged with stealing residents’ painkillers has agreed to surrender her license.
According to the Iowa Board of Nursing, Tanya Lynn Jordan worked at the Crestview Specialty Care nursing home in West Branch from February 2024 through April 2024. During that time, the board has alleged, Jordan signed out patients’ opioid painkillers, including hydrocodone pills, and took them for herself instead of administering them to patients as she indicated in the patients’ medical records.
After being criminally charged with felony prohibited acts involving controlled substances and tampering with records, Jordan entered a guilty plea to the misdemeanor records charge and was sentenced to 10 days in jail and two years of probation.
Separately, the Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals, and Licensing concluded Jordan had committed dependent adult abuse while employed at Crestview Specialty Care, according to the board. The available state records give no indication as to whether the abuse finding is tied to the allegation of narcotics theft or to a separate matter.
In September 2025, the Board of Nursing, citing the criminal case, charged Jordan with misappropriating patient medications, committing an act that might adversely affect a patient’s welfare, falsifying patient records, and being convicted of an offense that directly relates to the duties and responsibilities of the nursing profession. At the same time, the board issued an emergency order suspending Jordan’s license “to prevent or avoid immediate danger to the public health, safety or welfare.”
In agreeing to settle the disciplinary matter with Jordan’s voluntary surrender of her license, the board recently agreed that Jordan will be eligible to apply for reinstatement of her nursing license in one year.
Jordan declined to comment on the matter when contacted Monday by the Iowa Capital Dispatch.