Name Withheld, RN
| Registration # |
Withheld |
| Decision Date |
February 3, 2025
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Conditions Imposed, Suspension Lifted
In a decision dated February 3, 2025, a panel of the NANB Fitness to Practice (Review) Committee accepted an Alternate Complaint Resolution Proposal (“ACRP”) between NANB and the Registrant. The Registrant admitted to diverting narcotics from their place of employment for personal use, using narcotics while at work and before attending work, and being impaired while at work. The Registrant admitted to signing out narcotics under the name of a discharged patient, under a patient who did not have an order for the narcotic, and under “stock” rather than under the name of a patient. The Registrant also admitted to signing out narcotics in excess of what was ordered for a patient and without recording the waste for the residual narcotic, and to taking the remainder of a patient’s narcotic after it was administered. The NANB Fitness to Practice (Review) Committee accepted medical evidence that the Registrant is now fit to practice and ordered that the suspension imposed on the Registrant by the Complaints Committee be lifted and conditions be imposed on the Registrant’s registration.
The Registrant has voluntarily agreed to the following conditions on their practice:
- Remedial education related to ethics in nursing;
- Performance evaluations from their employer(s) from the date of their return to the active practice of nursing;
- Shall not work independently as a self-employed Registered Nurse and shall not work in a supervisory role;
- Continue to receive medical treatments and counselling;
- Submit written reports from health care professionals treating and counselling the Registrant;
- Participate in a drug monitoring program and various audits of medication administration records;
- Restrictions regarding the handling, administering co-signing, counting, wasting or handling of Controlled Substances;
- Remain abstinent from all drugs and Controlled Substances other than those prescribed by a licenced medical physician;
- Provide their employers with a copy of the Fitness to Practice (Review) Committee’s decision and order and advise NANB of any change in address or employer.
