Honey Palalon

The Member, a registered nurse, faced allegations of professional misconduct for repeatedly sending patients' personal health information via unsecure standard email, accessing a patient's financial information without consent, and storing confidential patient information on an unsecure, unencrypted USB drive for several years.

The Member also posted an unauthorized memo that contradicted management's infection control instructions.

The Member admitted to the allegations.

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

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

The College of Nurses of Ontario brought disciplinary proceedings against the Member for professional misconduct.

The Member had been criminally convicted of assaulting 11 patients, many of whom were minors, by conducting improper physical examinations.

He also breached a court recognizance and a written undertaking with the College by conducting an unsupervised physical examination of a 19-year-old male.

The Discipline Committee found the allegations proven, concluding the Member's conduct was disgraceful, dishonourable, and unprofessional.

Given the severity of the misconduct, the Member's lack of participation, and his ungovernability, the Committee ordered an oral reprimand and the immediate revocation of his certificate of registration.

The Member, a registered nurse, faced allegations of professional misconduct for accessing the personal health information of multiple patients and her own records without authorization or clinical purpose over a five-year period.

She also engaged in a verbal confrontation with a colleague on hospital grounds.

The Member admitted to the allegations.

The Discipline Committee found her guilty of professional misconduct and accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand, a three-month suspension, and terms and conditions including meetings with a regulatory expert and employer notification.

The Member, a Registered Practical Nurse, admitted to professional misconduct for failing to maintain therapeutic boundaries with a patient, failing to report the patient's disclosure of potential self-harm, and accessing the patient's personal health information without a clinical purpose.

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

The Member was reprimanded, her certificate of registration was suspended for four months, and terms, conditions, and limitations were imposed on her practice.

The Member, a registered nurse, faced allegations of professional misconduct for misappropriating credit cards from an elderly, vulnerable patient and using them for personal purchases.

The Member was criminally charged and convicted of fraud but failed to report the charges and findings of guilt to the College.

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 reprimand, a 12-month suspension, and terms, conditions, and limitations on the Member's certificate of registration.

The Member, a Registered Practical Nurse, faced allegations of professional misconduct relating to two patients.

For the first patient, a psychiatric patient, the Member failed to monitor, de-escalate, and document the patient's self-harming behaviour.

For the second patient, an elderly woman with dementia, the Member slapped the patient's hand and spoke to her in a rude and annoyed tone.

The Member admitted to the allegations and agreed to a Joint Statement of Facts and a Joint Submission on Order.

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

The College of Nurses of Ontario brought disciplinary proceedings against a registered nurse for failing to maintain therapeutic boundaries with a client and failing to report that a colleague had engaged in sexual intercourse with the client.

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

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

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, including meetings with a nursing expert and employer notification.