Patricia Lynn Harper

The College of Nurses of Ontario brought disciplinary proceedings against a Registered Practical Nurse for physically, verbally, and emotionally abusing a vulnerable patient and for administering the incorrect flu vaccination to four patients.

The Member did not attend the hearing.

The Discipline Committee found the Member committed professional misconduct by grabbing and aggressively speaking to a patient, and by failing to meet medication standards.

The Committee ordered an oral reprimand, a five-month suspension, and terms and conditions on the Member's certificate of registration.

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

The Member admitted to providing inaccurate and misleading information about COVID-19 and vaccines to patients, administering an unauthorized intravenous infusion without a physician's order, failing to wear appropriate personal protective equipment with a COVID-19 positive patient, and submitting a falsified COVID-19 vaccination certificate to her employer.

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 six-month suspension, and terms, conditions, and limitations on her certificate of registration.

The Member, a Registered Practical Nurse, faced allegations of professional misconduct for misappropriating narcotics from two healthcare facilities, falsifying records, breaching patient privacy, and failing to report criminal charges and a finding of guilt for theft to the College.

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

The Discipline Committee found the Member committed professional misconduct.

Pursuant to a Joint Submission on Order, and noting the Member's undertaking to permanently resign and never reapply, the Committee ordered an oral reprimand.

The Member, a Registered Practical Nurse, faced allegations of professional misconduct for failing to maintain professional boundaries with four patients.

The Member admitted to the allegations, which included exchanging personal and sexually suggestive texts, providing personal transportation for money, allowing a patient to reside in her home, and fostering a patient's dog.

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 her certificate of registration.

The Member, a Registered Nurse, admitted to professional misconduct involving verbal and emotional abuse of two patients.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Member held a patient's door shut and yelled at her to stay in her room.

In a separate incident, the Member interrupted a de-escalation attempt and used inappropriate language towards another patient.

The Discipline Committee accepted a joint submission on order, imposing a two-month suspension, an oral reprimand, remedial education with a Regulatory Expert, and 12 months of employer notification.

The Member was found to have committed professional misconduct, including disgraceful, dishonourable, and unprofessional conduct, relating to two separate incidents of patient abuse on a Mental Health Unit.

The Member failed to participate in the disciplinary process.

The Discipline Committee ordered an oral reprimand, a six-month suspension of the Member's certificate of registration, and terms, conditions, and limitations including meetings with a Regulatory Expert, employer notification, and a restriction on independent practice.

The Member was found to have committed professional misconduct by making false benefits claims, misappropriating funds, and falsifying records.

At the penalty hearing, the Discipline Committee ordered an oral reprimand, a six-month suspension of the Member's certificate of registration, and terms including meetings with a regulatory expert and an 18-month employer notification period.

The Committee also ordered the Member to pay $2,880.00 in costs due to pre-hearing delays caused by the Member.

The College of Nurses of Ontario brought disciplinary proceedings against a registered nurse for failing to provide adequate care and failing to document care for four patients at a long-term care facility.

The member admitted to the allegations, which included failing to assess a patient on symptom surveillance who later died of sepsis, and failing to escalate another patient's fall.

The Discipline Committee found the member committed professional misconduct.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered an oral reprimand, a three-month suspension, and terms including meetings with a regulatory expert and employer notification.

The Member, a Registered Practical Nurse operating an independent cosmetic spa, admitted to professional misconduct for failing to keep adequate records, performing controlled acts (cosmetic injections) without proper authorization from a physician, and making disparaging social media posts directed at a patient.

The Discipline Committee accepted an Agreed Statement of Facts and a Joint Submission on Order, finding the Member's conduct to be unprofessional and dishonourable.

The Member was reprimanded, her certificate of registration was suspended for four months, and terms, conditions, and limitations were imposed on her practice, including meetings with a Regulatory Expert and employer notification requirements.

This application sought to vary or rescind a 2019 consent order that granted the Law Society of Ontario (LSO) access to the applicant's youth court records.

The applicant, a law school graduate, had disclosed a youth conviction for murder in her 2016 LSO admission application, leading to a "good character" investigation.

The court determined that under section 82 of the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA), once a youth disposition has ceased to have effect, the young person is conclusively deemed not to have been found guilty or convicted of the offence.

This statutory "pardon" means the conviction effectively never existed and cannot be used by the LSO Tribunal for good character assessment.

The court also found that the LSO's application form question, which compelled the applicant to disclose her youth record, was legally incorrect and misleading.

Consequently, the original access order was rescinded, as its intended purpose of using the conviction was legally impermissible.

The Member, a Registered Practical Nurse, faced allegations of professional misconduct for accessing the electronic medical records of 16 patients without consent, authorization, or professional purpose.

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

The Discipline Committee found that the Member committed professional misconduct, as her actions breached the College's Code of Conduct, Professional Standards, and Privacy Standard.

The Committee accepted the joint submission on penalty, ordering an oral reprimand, a two-month suspension of the Member's certificate of registration, and terms including 12 months of employer notification and random spot audits.

The Member, a Registered Practical Nurse, faced disciplinary proceedings for accessing approximately 900 patient electronic medical records without consent, authorization, or clinical purpose over a one-year period.

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

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 terms including meetings with a regulatory expert and employer notification.

The Member, a Registered Practical Nurse, faced allegations of professional misconduct for accepting a $16,000 bank draft and a $1,000 cheque from an 86-year-old vulnerable patient.

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

The Discipline Committee found that the Member's actions constituted a fundamental breach of the therapeutic nurse-client relationship and amounted to disgraceful, dishonourable, and unprofessional conduct.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered an oral reprimand, a 5-month suspension, and remedial conditions including the completion of an ethics program and employer notification.

The College of Nurses of Ontario alleged that the Member, a Nurse Practitioner, committed professional misconduct by issuing COVID-19 vaccine medical exemption letters without appropriate assessments or clinical indications, and by charging excessive fees.

The Discipline Committee found that the Member breached multiple standards of practice, including documentation and therapeutic nurse-client relationship standards, by issuing nearly 400 exemption letters based on group Zoom sessions without individual assessments.

The Committee concluded this conduct was disgraceful, dishonourable, and unprofessional.

The allegation of charging an excessive fee was dismissed due to insufficient evidence.

The Member faced allegations of professional misconduct for failing to disclose to the College of Nurses of Ontario that he was registered in another jurisdiction and that his license had been suspended by the Minnesota Board of Nursing.

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

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

The Committee accepted a Joint Submission on Order, imposing a reprimand, a 4-month suspension, and terms and conditions on the Member's certificate of registration.

The Member, a Registered Practical Nurse, faced allegations of professional misconduct for engaging in a personal and sexual relationship with a patient, providing her home address to the patient, and failing to report a colleague's sexual relationship with another patient.

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

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

The Committee accepted the joint submission on penalty, ordering an oral reprimand, a 9-month suspension of the Member's certificate of registration, and terms, conditions, and limitations including meetings with a Regulatory Expert and employer notification.

The College of Nurses of Ontario brought disciplinary proceedings against a registered practical nurse who was convicted of criminal negligence causing the death of her four-year-old son and failing to comply with bail conditions.

The member failed to report the criminal charges and convictions to the College.

The Discipline Committee found the member guilty of professional misconduct, concluding that her actions were relevant to her suitability to practice and constituted disgraceful, dishonourable, and unprofessional conduct.

The member's certificate of registration was revoked and she was ordered to appear for an oral reprimand.

The Member, a registered nurse, faced allegations of professional misconduct for submitting false claims totaling $4,030 to her employer's group benefit plan.

The Member admitted to the allegations through an Agreed Statement of Facts, acknowledging she received non-medical products instead of the claimed medical services.

The Discipline Committee found the Member committed professional misconduct, including misappropriating property, falsifying records, and engaging in dishonourable and unprofessional conduct.

Accepting a Joint Submission on Order, the Committee imposed a penalty consisting of an oral reprimand, a three-month suspension of her certificate of registration, and conditions requiring meetings with a regulatory expert and employer notification.

The Member, a registered nurse, admitted to committing professional misconduct by submitting false claims totaling $2,710 to her employer's group benefit plan in exchange for non-medical products.

The Discipline Committee accepted an Agreed Statement of Facts and 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 Order, imposing a reprimand, a three-month suspension of her certificate of registration, and conditions including meetings with a regulatory expert and employer notification.

The Member, a Registered Nurse, faced allegations of professional misconduct including verbal and emotional abuse of multiple vulnerable patients, neglect of basic patient care needs, and failure to document activities of daily living.

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

The Discipline Committee found that the Member committed professional misconduct by breaching standards of practice, abusing patients, failing to keep records, and engaging in disgraceful, dishonourable, and unprofessional conduct.

The Committee accepted a Joint Submission on Order, imposing a reprimand, a 6-month suspension, and terms, conditions, and limitations on the Member's certificate of registration.