B.C. nurse accused of trafficking drugs to inmates at maximum security prison | 24CA News
A B.C. nurse is the topic of not less than two investigations into allegations he was trafficking pharmaceuticals to inmates at a most safety jail, based on new courtroom paperwork.
The registered nurse was working at Kent Institution in Agassiz in late 2021 when the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) started investigating “discrepancies” in his dealing with of medicine, based on a latest petition filed by the B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives.
The school opened its personal investigation and has now turned to the courtroom to ask for an order requiring the nurse to show over his banking and cellphone information.
To date, the petition says, he has “refused to provide the requested information.”
CBC isn’t naming the nurse as no expenses have been laid. None of the allegations within the petition have been confirmed in courtroom and the nurse has but to file a response.
The 50-year-old RN resigned from his place on the jail on Dec. 20, 2021, 4 days after he realized that he was below investigation, based on the petition. He stays a totally licensed nurse.
CSC spokespeople and a lawyer for the nurse have but to reply to requests for remark.
‘Boss beater’ telephone turned over by inmate: school
The petition says that officers at Kent Institution started investigating the nurse within the fall of 2021 whereas he was on depart from work. The facility, about 130 kilometres east of Vancouver, is B.C.’s solely most safety jail.
An affidavit from an expert conduct assessment marketing consultant with the faculty alleges that an inmate informed employees a nurse had been promoting medicine from the jail’s inventory and accepting e-transfer funds to his private checking account.
A second inmate additionally got here ahead with a so-called “boss beater” cellphone that prisoners had been utilizing to ship cash to the nurse, based on the petition. The SIM card had been eliminated, however the nurse’s quantity was allegedly saved to the telephone.
Both inmates have been rated by the CSC as “reliable,” the petition says.
Between January and October of 2021, the RN labored as an infectious illness nurse, then as a line nurse on the jail, courtroom paperwork present.
Distributing medicines isn’t usually a part of the job of an infectious illness nurse, based on the marketing consultant’s affidavit. Nonetheless, CSC officers informed the faculty that the nurse “would still accompany line nurses to the medication distribution wicket for the evening medication line, despite it not being a regular function” of his job.
The school was knowledgeable concerning the CSC investigation on Dec. 29, 2021.
It is now asking for a courtroom order compelling the nurse to supply all information for financial institution accounts the place he acquired or carried out transfers between December 2020 and December 2021, in addition to all telephone information associated to cash transfers throughout the identical interval.
“Legal counsel with the college believes that the records sought in this proceeding may disclose evidence that the respondent has contravened the [Health Professions] Act, its regulations, college bylaws and/or committed professional misconduct,” the petition reads.
The nurse has to this point declined to provide these information.
In a Nov. 16, 2022, letter to the faculty, submitted as a part of an affidavit to the courtroom, the nurse’s lawyer wrote that she doesn’t imagine the Health Professions Act provides the faculty the authority to entry a nurse’s banking of telephone information.
The petition factors to the case of Amanda Parniak, a former nurse whose licence was cancelled for skilled misconduct after she was discovered to have diverted a big quantity of narcotics from her employer over a six-month interval.
A courtroom date has but to be set for a listening to of the faculty petition.
