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Ca: Nurse found guilty of professional misconduct for snooping into patient records

Posted on April 29, 2016 by Dissent

May Warren reports:

A Peterborough nurse has been found guilty of professional misconduct for accessing almost 300 confidential patient records at Peterborough Regional Health Centre over two years, at a disciplinary hearing she fought to keep secret.

Mandy Edgerton (formerly Edgerton-Reid) was slapped with a four-month suspension and a formal reprimand on Wednesday, by a five-member panel at the College of Nurses of Ontario. The Toronto Star’s lawyers successfully challenged her effort to hold the hearing in secret.

Read more on Toronto Star.


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