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Licensed practical nurse Rajvir Sidhu admitted accessing a patient's medical records multiple times in a 12-minute period and consented to an eight-day suspension, the B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives says.
The B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives has made public another case of a nurse working in the provincial corrections system who accessed the records of a patient not in her care.
Rajvir Sidhu Faces Licence Suspension
Rajvir Sidhu is a licensed practical nurse whose primary employer is listed as Fraser Regional Correctional Centre in the college's online directory. Sidhu consented to a discipline order back in June, according to a notice the BCCNM published Friday. The respondent licensee admitted to having accessed the medical records of a person not in her care multiple times in a 12-minute period and consented to an eight-day suspension of her licence, the college's notice reads.
Sidhu was the second LPN employed in a B.C. Corrections facility to have a discipline order made public on Friday. Earlier in the day, the BCCNM published notice of licensed practical nurse Anju Khan's misconduct. Like Sidhu, Khan was suspended for accessing medical records for a person not in her care.
Seven Corrections Nurses Disciplined
Khan's unauthorized access happened only once and her suspension was set at seven days. In all, the BCCNM has published seven discipline orders involving B.C. Corrections nurses accessing the records of people who were not in their care on its website since early September. All seven committed their misconduct in April or May 2025 and agreed to discipline orders against them in May or June of this year.
Including Sidhu, five of the nurses have worked for Fraser Regional Correctional Centre. The other two, Khan and registered nurse Agnes Bacsa, work for Surrey pre-trial and Correctional Health Services, respectively, according to the BCCNM directory. It's unclear whether these seven cases are related to one another. Asked for comment after the first three discipline notices were published, neither the BCCNM nor B.C.
Corrections would elaborate on the underlying circumstances. B.C. Corrections noted that, although the nurses work in its facilities, their employer is the Provincial Health Services Authority. That agency also declined to say whether the first three cases were related to each other when CTV News asked last month.
PHSA Emphasizes Patient Privacy Safeguards
As a public health organization, we appreciate the critical importance of protecting patient privacy and we work diligently to reinforce this duty to our staff while also ensuring our safeguards are robust and as effective as possible, the PHSA said in a statement at the time. Accessing patient records without authorization or clinical need is inappropriate and unacceptable.
As soon as we become aware of any privacy breach, we work in co-operation with the appropriate regulatory body to report the breach and assist investigators as needed. The latest notice brings the total number of corrections nurses disciplined for unauthorized record access to seven since early September. The college has not said whether the cases share a common cause or system failure. Sidhu's eight-day suspension is the longest among the seven disclosed so far.
Suspensions and Unauthorized Access Pattern
Khan received seven days, and the remaining nurses had penalties that have not been detailed in the same way. Privacy experts have said that multiple accesses within a short window can suggest a deliberate search rather than an accidental glance at a record. The BCCNM has not commented on that pattern. None of the nurses have been identified as having shared the records publicly.
The discipline orders focus on the unauthorized access itself. The Provincial Health Services Authority has said it reports every privacy breach it detects to the appropriate regulator and assists investigators as needed. B.C. Corrections has directed questions about the cases to PHSA and the college.
Neither has provided a timeline for when the remaining details might be released. The BCCNM publishes discipline outcomes on its website as part of its mandate to protect the public. The notices typically include the licensee's name, employer, admission and penalty.
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