What you should know:
1. Ms. Somawang was a registered nurse at the Bellingham, Wash.-based surgery center from February 2012 to July 2014.
2. She had her credential temporarily suspended in June after she missed five drug tests and withdrew from a substance abuse monitoring program.
3. A surgery center employee claimed to have observed Ms. Somawang inject herself with a syringe at the surgery center July 14, 2014. Ms. Somawang admitted to stealing and abusing fentanyl several times in late July 2014.
4. Ms. Somawang entered into a substance abuse contract with the state in October 2014 but failed to adhere to the terms of the contract and withdrew from the substance abuse program in November 2017.
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