(KAIR)--An Atchison woman, accused of overmedicating a patient while working as a nurse at a Leavenworth long-term care facility, will serve probation for one year.

That’s the sentence handed down to 37-year-old Jennifer Reavis, in Leavenworth County District Court, according to Leavenworth County Attorney Todd Thompson.

Thompson, in a release, said that Reavis, if probation is violated, “has the potential of two years in jail, with the judge running the battery and endangerment charges consecutively to one another. The court did run the battery conviction concurrent to the other two counts.”

Reavis, last month, entered a no contest plea, leading to her conviction for endangerment, unlawful administration of a controlled substance, and battery. That stems from what Thompson says was giving evening and bedtime medications at the same time, along with an Ativan and a Benadryl, which was not in the resident’s schedule of medications, with the medications known to make a person drowsy. Reavis’ legal representation, Atchison attorney Andrew Werring, last month told MSC News in email correspondence that his client gave the patient a single 25 milligram tablet of Benadryl, an antihistamine, believing there was, what Werring calls, a standing order authorizing the medication due to the resident having had symptoms similar to an allergic reaction.

According to Thompson, the endangerment charge is recklessly exposing another person to a danger of great bodily harm or death.  The other two counts were for unlawful administration of a controlled substance, and battery.

The Leavenworth County Attorney’s Office filed criminal charges after an investigation by the Lansing Police Department was conducted at the Twin Oaks Health and Rehab Center in May 2019.