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Upcoming Hearing Dates

Unless otherwise noted, each hearing date indicated below pertains to a separate matter and a distinct individual.

Wednesday, November 26, 2025, at 10:00 a.m.

• Charge: Lack of Knowledge, Skill and Judgement
• Allegations:
• While assigned as a Registered Nurse to provide care to a critically ill patient who was admitted to the hospital with pneumonia, severe shortness of breath, inadequate oxygenation, lethargy, confusion and cyanotic fingertips and toes with any movement; the registrant:
• Failed to adequately document the nursing care provided which included the following:
  • Due to the acute nature of the patient’s condition, the registrant disagreed with the patient’s placement on their ward but failed to document this concern,
  • Failed to administer prescribed medication and failed to record the reason why it was not administered,
  • Failed to document that the patient’s vital signs were taken on a less frequent schedule than that prescribed and failing to record the reasons,
  • Failed to document that cyanosis was evident after the nursing assessment was conducted,
  • Failed to provide consistent chart entries regarding the patient being either alert or lethargic,
  • Failed to enter consistent entries in the Vital Sign Record and Integrated Progress Notes,
  • Failed to document in a manner which properly reflected the patient’s clinical condition
• Failed to demonstrate critical thinking and apply the nursing process which included the following:
  • Failed to reassess the patient as required,
  • Failed to communicate that in their opinion, the patient should be on an intensive care unit,
  • Failed to check in on the patient as frequently as the patient’s condition mandated,
  • Not administering prescribed medication, without consultation with the prescribing physician or other health care personnel,
  • Failing to consider the patient’s changing condition after noting the patient’s change in condition from a nursing assessment,
  • Failing to assess whether the patient’s confusion was caused by lack of oxygen,
  • Applying restraints to the patient and failing to inform the next of kin,
• Failed to properly communicate regarding the patient’s care.

Adjourned Hearings

Unless otherwise noted, each hearing date indicated below pertains to a separate matter and a distinct individual.

• Wednesday, November 5, 2025 10:00 a.m.- ADJOURNED – new date to be determined
  • Charge: Professional Misconduct
  • Allegations:
  • Professional concerns which included the following:
    • Inability to effectively communicate and lack of time management which resulted in delays to patient care.
    • Lacking accountability and insight into shortcomings and various wrongdoings.
    • Acting unprofessionally and failing to communicate respectfully and honestly and refusing to accept feedback on performance.
  • Clinical concerns which included the following:
    • Failing to hand over care to an expanded role registered nurse after seeing an elderly patient with acute vital sign changes.
    • Requesting Tylenol for an 18-month-old patient without performing a full vital set of signs.
  • Documentation concerns which included the following:
    • Failing to complete charting for at least five patients.
    • Failing to document whether the expanded role nurse saw the patient.
    • Failing to document the effect that Tylenol had when treating an 18-month-old patient and the identity of the nurse to whom care was transitioned .

• Wednesday, June 11, 2025, 9:00 a.m. – ADJOURNED – new date to be determined
  • Charge: Professional Misconduct
  • Allegation: It is alleged that as a Clinical Nurse Educator the registrant intentionally misrepresented the topic of an in-service to staff; the registrant used it as an opportunity to share their political views and opinions on the COVID-19 pandemic, the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the COVID-19 vaccine. It is alleged that the presentation was biased and contained political opinion not consistent with scientific or evidence-based information.
• Tuesday, October 14, 2025, Wednesday, October 15, 2025, and Thursday, October 16, 2025  10:00 a.m.  – ADJOURNED – new date to be determined
  • Charge: Professional Misconduct
  • Allegations:
    • Denied access, without making reasonable or adequate inquiry, to a family member providing care to a patient in the emergency department.
    • Acted in an unprofessional, rude, bullying and threatening manner towards a medical resident and a physician.
    • Refused to allow an unhoused person with Covid-19 to have an available bed in the emergency department resulting in them waiting in the waiting room for an extended amount of time, increasing the risk to others.
    • Made discriminatory and racist comments to staff and patients.
    • Made no effort to assist nurses during a complicated resuscitation.
    • Displayed poor communication skills and a lack of empathy, failed to establish a therapeutic relationship, and provided care that was unhelpful and unsafe.

Hearing procedures

No Recording Devices Permitted

Visitors, including members of the media, are prohibited from carrying into, or using while inside the discipline hearing room, any audio/visual equipment including video cameras, still photography equipment, laptop computers, smart phones and tape recorders.

Members of the media are prohibited from reporting anything that would identify the investigated member, including the member’s name or location of practice, unless and until the panel makes a finding under The Regulated Health Professions Act.

If the panel believes that the hearing, or part of the hearing, should be closed to the public, it may make orders it considers necessary to prevent the public disclosure of matters disclosed at the hearing, including orders banning the publication or broadcasting of those matters.