Health Law - CNO

The Member, a registered nurse, faced disciplinary proceedings for discontinuing a client's life support without medical authorization and failing to document the responsible physician's refusal to authorize the discontinuation.

The Member admitted to the allegations.

The Discipline Committee found the Member committed professional misconduct and engaged in dishonourable and unprofessional conduct.

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

The Member was found to have committed professional misconduct, including engaging in dishonourable and unprofessional conduct, failing to obtain consent, and providing inappropriate care.

The Discipline Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a six-month suspension, a reprimand, and terms, conditions, and limitations on the Member's certificate of registration, including meetings with a nursing expert and employer notification.

The College of Nurses of Ontario brought professional misconduct allegations against a registered nurse for physically abusing a psychiatric patient and failing to document the interaction.

The member admitted to the allegations, acknowledging he pushed the client into a wall, restrained him, and failed to document the incident.

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 a two-month suspension, an oral reprimand, and conditions requiring meetings with a nursing expert and employer notification.

The Member, a registered nurse, admitted to professional misconduct for stealing over 300 client labels containing personal health information from two hospitals and providing them to a third party for monetary reward.

The Member pled guilty to criminal charges of secret commissions and received a conditional sentence.

In the discipline proceeding, the Member admitted the allegations and entered into an undertaking to permanently resign from the College.

The Discipline Committee accepted a joint submission and ordered the Member to appear for an oral reprimand.

The College of Nurses of Ontario brought disciplinary proceedings against a registered nurse who failed to secure 27 Hydromorphone tablets prior to their destruction and disposal.

The member admitted to failing to follow the facility's protocol but contested whether the conduct amounted to unprofessional conduct.

The Discipline Committee found that the member's failure to immediately secure the narcotics in the lockbox demonstrated a serious disregard for her professional obligations and constituted unprofessional conduct.

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

The Member, a registered nurse, faced allegations of professional misconduct relating to multiple clients, including failing to attend scheduled visits, improperly delegating the disconnection of a PICC line to a personal support worker over the phone, failing to provide appropriate pain management, and failing to document care.

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

The Discipline Committee found the Member committed professional misconduct and accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand, a five-month suspension, and various terms, conditions, and limitations on her certificate of registration.

The Member, a Registered Practical Nurse, faced allegations of professional misconduct for failing to report that she witnessed a colleague strike a client in a mental health unit.

The Member initially denied seeing the strike but later admitted to witnessing it.

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

The Member was found to have committed professional misconduct and received a reprimand, a one-month suspension, and terms, conditions, and limitations on her certificate of registration.

The Member, a registered nurse, faced allegations of professional misconduct for physically abusing a cognitively impaired client at a long-term care facility by grabbing and shaking her.

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

The Discipline Committee found the Member committed professional misconduct, including failing to meet the Therapeutic Nurse-Client Relationship standard and engaging in disgraceful, dishonourable, and unprofessional conduct.

The Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering an oral reprimand, noting that the Member had already signed an undertaking to permanently resign from the College and never reapply.

The College of Nurses of Ontario brought disciplinary proceedings against a registered practical nurse for alleged physical, verbal, and emotional abuse of patients, as well as unprofessional conduct towards colleagues.

The nurse did not attend the hearing.

The Discipline Committee found that the nurse committed professional misconduct by failing to provide a blanket to a patient, physically and verbally abusing patients, mocking a patient with aphasia, making obscene gestures, and sharing unsolicited sexual information with colleagues.

The Committee revoked the nurse's certificate of registration and ordered a reprimand.

The Member, a Registered Nurse, admitted to accessing the electronic medical records of two clients without consent or authorization.

One client was known to the Member personally, and the other had recently committed suicide at the hospital.

The Discipline Committee found the Member committed professional misconduct by contravening the standards of practice and engaging in dishonourable and unprofessional conduct.

The penalty, ordered by joint submission, included a reprimand, a two-month suspension, meetings with a nursing expert, and employer notification for 18 months.

The College of Nurses of Ontario brought disciplinary proceedings against a registered nurse for historical allegations of professional misconduct dating back to the 1970s.

The Member was alleged to have engaged in a personal, sexual, and financial relationship with a vulnerable 15-year-old client during and immediately after the therapeutic relationship.

The Discipline Committee found that the Member's conduct constituted malpractice and incompetence under the former Nurses Act, and disgraceful, dishonourable, and unprofessional conduct under the Health Disciplines Act.

The Committee revoked the Member's certificate of registration, ordered a reprimand, and imposed a $5,000 fine.

The former member applied for reinstatement of her certificate of registration, which was revoked in 2003 following criminal convictions for fraud.

The former member failed to attend the reinstatement hearing despite receiving adequate notice.

As the onus was on the former member to establish suitability for reinstatement and no evidence was led, the Discipline Committee dismissed the application.

The applicant applied for reinstatement of her nursing certificate of registration, which was revoked in 2009 for professional misconduct involving a sexual relationship with a client.

The College of Nurses of Ontario did not oppose the application, and both parties presented a joint submission on order.

Relying on an independent psychiatric evaluation that deemed the applicant a low risk to re-offend, as well as her subsequent rehabilitation and retraining as a Pharmacy Technician, the Discipline Committee granted the reinstatement subject to strict terms, conditions, and limitations, including practice monitoring and restrictions on independent community nursing.

The Member, a Registered Practical Nurse, faced allegations of professional misconduct for falsifying annual payment cards and membership renewal receipts to misrepresent herself as a Registered Nurse.

She also applied for and worked in a Registered Nurse position and arranged with a co-worker to falsify time records.

The Member admitted to the allegations.

The Discipline Committee found the Member committed professional misconduct and, accepting a joint submission, ordered a reprimand, a four-month suspension, and terms and conditions on her certificate of registration.

The Member, a registered practical nurse, faced disciplinary proceedings for accepting loans from two elderly clients at a retirement residence.

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

The Discipline Committee found that the Member committed professional misconduct by contravening the standards of practice and engaging in unprofessional and dishonourable conduct.

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 Member, a registered nurse, faced allegations of professional misconduct for failing to maintain the boundaries of the nurse-client relationship with three vulnerable psychiatric clients.

The Member admitted to the allegations, which included engaging in personal relationships, making personal disclosures, and communicating extensively outside of therapy.

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

A joint submission on penalty was accepted, resulting in a reprimand, a four-month suspension, and terms, conditions, and limitations on the Member's certificate of registration.

The College of Nurses of Ontario brought disciplinary proceedings against a member who continued to practise nursing after voluntarily surrendering her certificate of registration.

The member used a different name, falsified annual payment cards, and misled her employers about her registration status.

She was also criminally convicted of theft, fraud, and failing to comply with an undertaking.

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

The Committee revoked her certificate of registration and ordered an oral reprimand.

The Member, a Registered Practical Nurse, faced allegations of professional misconduct relating to unauthorized dispensing of Fentanyl patches, medication administration errors involving Methadone, and failure to properly document and report these errors.

The Member admitted to the allegations and an Agreed Statement of Facts was presented.

The Discipline Committee found that the Member committed professional misconduct, including disgraceful, dishonourable, and unprofessional conduct.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered a reprimand, a six-month suspension, and imposed terms, conditions, and limitations on the Member's certificate of registration, including remediation and employer notification requirements.

The College of Nurses of Ontario brought allegations of professional misconduct against the respondent, a Registered Practical Nurse, for criminal convictions including theft, forgery, and impaired driving, as well as for exploiting vulnerable clients.

The respondent was found to have misappropriated property, breached therapeutic boundaries, and engaged in disgraceful and dishonourable conduct.

The Discipline Committee found all allegations proven and ordered the revocation of the respondent's certificate of registration.

The College of Nurses of Ontario brought allegations of professional misconduct against a Registered Practical Nurse for numerous medication administration and documentation errors, as well as sexual harassment of a co-worker.

The member admitted to the medication and documentation errors but denied the sexual harassment.

The Discipline Committee found the practice-related allegations proven based on an Agreed Statement of Facts.

However, the Committee dismissed the sexual harassment allegations, finding the evidence of the complainant and the member equally credible and therefore insufficient to meet the burden of proof.

The member was penalized with a reprimand, a three-month suspension, and terms and conditions on his certificate of registration, including employer notification.