The B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives has disciplined licensed practical nurse Samantha Joyce Ballesteros for taking cell phone photos of confidential information belonging 114 residents at a Burnaby long-term care facility.
A Burnaby nurse has been disciplined for taking photos of confidential information belonging to residents in a long-term care facility last year.
Samantha Joyce Ballesteros, a licensed practical nurse in Burnaby, has had her licence suspended for three weeks and has been ordered to take remedial education in ethics, privacy, responsibility and accountability, according to a notice from the B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives Monday. An inquiry committee panel has approved the sanctions as part of a consent agreement between the college and Ballestros to address practice issues last June.
Ballestros had used a personal mobile device to take images of four pages of a document containing confidential information of 114 residents of a long-term care facility, according to the college. “The registrant had no work-related purpose for obtaining the information,” stated the notice. “Further, the registrant breached an undertaking and failed to cooperate with the regulator during the investigation.”Follow Cornelia Naylor on Twitter @CorNaylor
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