Marie Gaetane Girouard
| Registration # |
020537 |
| Decision Date |
May 2, 2025
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Consent Agreement
In a decision dated May 2, 2025, a panel of the NANB Complaints Committee accepted a Consent Agreement between NANB and Marie Gaetane Girouard (Registration Number 020537). Ms. Girouard admitted to making several medication errors by administering a double dose of medication to a patient, by failing to administer a patient’s medication, and by failing to administer a patient’s medication at the scheduled time. Ms. Girouard admitted that the complaint also raised other issues, including additional errors in the management of medications and deficiencies in her knowledge of MAID procedures, incomplete documentation and inappropriate and inadequate professional communication with her coworkers and patient’s family members.
Ms. Girouard has voluntarily agreed to the following conditions on her registration:
- Remedial education related to leadership and professional communication;
- Performance evaluations from her employer(s) from the date of the Complaint’s Committee decision or upon her return to the active practice of nursing;
- Providing each employer and regulatory body with which she is registered with a copy of the Consent Agreement and Complaints Committee’s decision and advising NANB of any change in address or employer.
