DISCIPLINE COMMITTEE OF THE COLLEGE OF NURSES OF ONTARIO
PANEL:
Dawn Cutler, RN Chairperson Heather Stevanka, RN Member Sherry Szucsko-Bedard, RN Member Devinder Walia Public Member Chuck Williams Public Member
BETWEEN:
COLLEGE OF NURSES OF ONTARIO NICK COLEMAN for College of Nurses of Ontario
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KELLY REINHART, Reg. No. 0453993 SOPHIA RUDDOCK for Kelly Reinhart CHRIS WIRTH, Independent Legal Counsel
Heard: July 23, 2018
DECISION AND REASONS
This matter came on for hearing before a panel of the Discipline Committee (the “Panel”) on July 23, 2018 at the College of Nurses of Ontario (the “College”) at Toronto.
Kelly Reinhart (the “Member”) was present for the hearing and was represented by Counsel.
The Allegations
The allegations against the Member as stated in the Notice of Hearing dated May 17, 2018 are as follows.
IT IS ALLEGED THAT:
- You have committed an act of professional misconduct as provided by subsection 51(1)(c) of the Health Professions Procedural Code of the Nursing Act, 1991, S.O. 1991, c. 32, as amended, and defined in subsection 1(1) of Ontario Regulation 799/93, in that, while employed as a Registered Nurse at Lanark Heights Long Term Care (“the Facility”) in Kitchener, Ontario, you contravened a standard of practice of the profession or failed to meet the standard of practice of the profession, on or about March 22, 2015, with respect to:
(a) misappropriating from the Facility the narcotic, Dilaudid, intended for the client, [the Client], and/or
(b) making a false entry in the client’s record for [the Client] indicating the narcotic had been administered to the client when, in fact, you had misappropriated the narcotic.
You have committed an act of professional misconduct as provided by subsection 51(1)(c) of the Health Professions Procedural Code of the Nursing Act, 1991, S.O. 1991, c. 32, as amended, and defined in subsection 1(8) of Ontario Regulation 799/93, in that, while employed as a Registered Nurse at Lanark Heights Long Term Care (“the Facility”) in Kitchener, Ontario, you misappropriated property from a client or workplace with respect to misappropriating from the Facility the narcotic, Dilaudid, intended for the client, [the Client], on or about March 22, 2015.
You have committed an act of professional misconduct as provided by subsection 51(1)(c) of the Health Professions Procedural Code of the Nursing Act, 1991, S.O. 1991, c. 32, as amended, and defined in subsection 1(14) of Ontario Regulation 799/93, in that, while employed as a Registered Nurse at Lanark Heights Long Term Care in Kitchener, Ontario, you falsified a record relating to your practice with respect to making a false entry in the client’s record for the client, [the Client], indicating that Dilaudid had been administered to the client when, in fact, you had misappropriated the narcotic, on or about March 22, 2015.
You have committed an act of professional misconduct as provided by subsection 51(1)(c) of the Health Professions Procedural Code of the [Nursing Act, 1991,](https://www.canlii.org/en/on/laws/stat/so-1991-c-32/latest/so-1991-c