Carly Hourigan

The member, a registered nurse, admitted to committing professional misconduct by submitting approximately $9,000 in false claims for medical services and products under her employer's group benefit plan.

The Discipline Committee found that her actions constituted misappropriation of property, falsification of records, and dishonourable conduct.

The Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand, a four-month suspension, meetings with a regulatory expert, and 12 months of employer notification.

The College of Nurses of Ontario brought disciplinary proceedings against a registered practical nurse for failing to send a patient to the hospital for catheter reinsertion and failing to report a colleague who smelled of alcohol while on shift.

The matter proceeded by way of an Agreed Statement of Facts and a Joint Submission on Order.

The Discipline Committee found that the nurse committed professional misconduct and engaged in unprofessional conduct.

The Committee accepted the joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand, a two-month suspension, and terms, conditions, and limitations on the nurse's certificate of registration.

The Member, a Registered Practical Nurse, admitted to committing professional misconduct by submitting false claims to her employer's benefit plan totaling $7,140.

The Discipline Committee accepted an Agreed Statement of Facts and found the Member committed professional misconduct, including misappropriating property, falsifying records, and engaging in dishonourable and unprofessional conduct.

The Committee accepted a Joint Submission on Order, imposing a reprimand, a 4-month suspension, and terms and conditions including meetings with a Regulatory Expert and employer notification.

The Member, a Registered Practical Nurse, admitted to committing professional misconduct by submitting false claims totaling $4,195 under her employer's benefit plan.

The Discipline Committee found that the Member contravened standards of practice, misappropriated property, falsified records, and engaged in dishonourable and unprofessional conduct.

The Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering an oral reprimand, a 4-month suspension of the Member's certificate of registration, and terms including meetings with a regulatory expert and employer notification.

The Member, a Registered Practical Nurse, admitted to professional misconduct for participating in a benefits fraud scheme at her workplace.

Between August and October 2012, she submitted false claims totaling $5,070 under the employer's benefit plan and split the proceeds with a service provider employee.

The Discipline Committee accepted an Agreed Statement of Facts and found the Member committed professional misconduct.

The Committee accepted a Joint Submission on Order, imposing an oral reprimand, a 4-month suspension, and terms, conditions, and limitations on her certificate of registration, including meetings with a Regulatory Expert and employer notification.

The College of Nurses of Ontario brought discipline proceedings against a registered nurse who assessed a heavily intoxicated patient in the back of a police vehicle rather than bringing the patient into the remote nursing station.

The nurse failed to conduct an adequate assessment and inappropriately sent the patient to the police station for monitoring.

The patient later died of natural causes.

Proceeding by way of an Agreed Statement of Facts, the Discipline Committee found the nurse committed professional misconduct.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered an oral reprimand, noting the nurse had already undertaken to permanently resign from the profession.

The Member, a registered nurse, admitted to committing professional misconduct by submitting false claims totaling approximately $5,892.50 under her employer's benefit plan between 2013 and 2016.

The Discipline Committee accepted an Agreed Statement of Facts and found that the Member misappropriated property, falsified records, and engaged in dishonourable and unprofessional conduct.

The Committee accepted a Joint Submission on Order, imposing a reprimand, a 3-month suspension of the Member's certificate of registration, and conditions including meetings with a regulatory expert and employer notification.

The member, a Registered Practical Nurse, admitted to committing professional misconduct by submitting false claims under her employer's benefit plan between 2012 and 2015, receiving approximately $8,170.

The Discipline Committee accepted an Agreed Statement of Facts and found the member committed professional misconduct.

Accepting a Joint Submission on Order, the Committee ordered a reprimand, a four-month suspension of the member's certificate of registration, and terms including meetings with a regulatory expert and employer notification for 12 months.

The College of Nurses of Ontario brought allegations of professional misconduct against the respondent registered nurse for submitting false claims under his employer's group benefit plan.

The respondent admitted to submitting false claims to obtain store credits for non-medicinal products, receiving $4,500.

The Discipline Committee accepted an Agreed Statement of Facts and found the respondent committed professional misconduct by contravening standards of practice, misappropriating property, falsifying records, and engaging in dishonourable conduct.

Accepting a Joint Submission on Order, the Committee ordered a reprimand, a three-month suspension, and terms including meetings with a regulatory expert and employer notification.

The College of Nurses of Ontario brought disciplinary proceedings against a registered nurse for professional misconduct, including sexual abuse of a patient, boundary violations, and privacy breaches.

The nurse admitted to the allegations, which involved engaging in a sexual relationship with a patient, sending inappropriate text messages, and sharing photographs of other patients without consent.

The Discipline Committee accepted an Agreed Statement of Facts and a Joint Submission on Order.

The Committee found the nurse committed professional misconduct, revoked his certificate of registration, ordered an oral reprimand, and required him to reimburse the College up to $5,000 for patient counselling.

The College of Nurses of Ontario brought discipline proceedings against a registered nurse for incidents occurring at a long-term care facility.

The Member was alleged to have failed to conduct adequate post-fall assessments for two patients, inappropriately transferred a patient without a mechanical lift, and used a sleeping patient's private telephone to make personal long-distance calls.

The Discipline Committee found that the Member committed professional misconduct, including emotional abuse and misappropriation of property.

The Member's certificate of registration was suspended for five months, and he was ordered to complete remedial activities and practice under restrictions.

The Member, a Registered Practical Nurse, faced allegations of professional misconduct including sexual abuse of a vulnerable mental health patient, failing to maintain therapeutic boundaries, and failing to cooperate with a College investigation by coaching the patient during an interview.

The Member admitted to the allegations through an Agreed Statement of Facts.

The Discipline Committee found the Member committed the alleged acts of professional misconduct.

Accepting a Joint Submission on Order, the Committee directed the immediate revocation of the Member's certificate of registration, ordered an oral reprimand, and required the Member to reimburse the College up to $5,000 for patient therapy funding.

The Member, a Registered Practical Nurse, faced allegations of professional misconduct relating to her care of an elderly patient who died while physically restrained.

The Member admitted to failing to intervene when colleagues applied restraints, failing to monitor the patient, failing to initiate appropriate interventions upon finding the patient deceased, and falsifying records.

The Discipline Committee accepted an Agreed Statement of Facts and found the Member committed professional misconduct.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered an oral reprimand, a four-month suspension, and terms, conditions, and limitations on the Member's certificate of registration.

The Member, a Registered Practical Nurse, admitted to professional misconduct for engaging in a personal and sexual relationship with the mother of a pediatric patient while providing home care.

The Discipline Committee found that the Member breached professional boundaries, emotionally abused the patient, and engaged in disgraceful, dishonourable, and unprofessional conduct.

The Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering an oral reprimand, a 9-month suspension, and terms and conditions on the Member's certificate of registration.

The Member, a registered nurse, faced allegations of professional misconduct after a patient in the emergency department committed suicide.

The Member failed to conduct required periodic assessments of the patient and subsequently falsified the patient's health record to indicate that checks had been performed when they had not.

The Discipline Committee found that the Member committed professional misconduct, including contravening standards of practice, failing to keep records, falsifying records, and engaging in dishonourable and unprofessional conduct.

The Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand, a three-month suspension, and conditions on the Member's certificate of registration.

The College of Nurses of Ontario brought disciplinary proceedings against a Registered Practical Nurse for multiple allegations of patient abuse at a long-term care facility.

The Member was alleged to have forced food, fluids, and medications on vulnerable patients without their consent, and to have yelled at and forcefully shaken them.

The Discipline Committee proceeded in the Member's absence and found that she committed professional misconduct by breaching standards of practice, abusing patients, and engaging in disgraceful, dishonourable, and unprofessional conduct.

The Committee ordered a 9-month suspension, an oral reprimand, and imposed terms, conditions, and limitations on her certificate of registration.

The College of Nurses of Ontario brought disciplinary proceedings against a registered nurse for multiple incidents of professional misconduct.

The Member admitted to telling an inappropriate story involving a racial slur in front of patients, attempting an improper one-person transfer of a patient requiring a two-person transfer, failing to document a patient fall, and administering medication without authorization.

The Discipline Committee accepted the Member's admissions and found that he committed professional misconduct, including verbal and emotional abuse of a client.

The Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand, a three-month suspension, and various terms, conditions, and limitations on the Member's certificate of registration.

The College of Nurses of Ontario brought discipline proceedings against a registered nurse for unauthorized access to the electronic medical records of approximately 318 patients and for misappropriating medication from patients' homes during visits that lacked a clinical purpose.

The member admitted to the allegations through an Agreed Statement of Facts.

The Discipline Committee found the member committed professional misconduct, characterizing her actions as disgraceful, dishonourable, and unprofessional.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered an oral reprimand, a 7-month suspension, and imposed conditions on her certificate of registration, including meetings with a regulatory expert and employer notification requirements.

The member, a registered nurse, faced allegations of professional misconduct for improperly disposing of patients' medication by taking empty pill bottles home for personal use, and for failing to report to the College that she had been criminally charged with theft and possession of property obtained by crime.

The member admitted to the allegations.

The Discipline Committee found that the member committed professional misconduct.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered a reprimand, a two-month suspension, and terms, conditions, and limitations on her certificate of registration, including meetings with a regulatory expert and employer notification.

The Member, a registered nurse, faced allegations of professional misconduct for failing to complete a Remediation Program ordered by the Inquiries, Complaints and Reports Committee.

The Member admitted to the allegations and agreed to a statement of facts.

The Discipline Committee found the Member committed professional misconduct.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered an oral reprimand, a one-month suspension of the Member's certificate of registration, and the imposition of terms, conditions, and limitations requiring meetings with a regulatory expert.