Nurse disgraced in U.S. working in Canada

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Source: CBC News

A Canadian woman whose California nursing licence was revoked over "gross negligence" is working at a Greater Toronto Area hospital, CBC News has learned.

Rose McKenzie, 38, of Mississauga had her California nursing licence revoked in 2008 after being accused of overmedicating and failing to monitor a patient at California's UCSF Medical Center following a successful, routine neck surgery. She was a temp nurse employed through American Mobile Nurses Inc. at the time.

The patient, Spencer Sullivan, stopped breathing Dec. 27, 2001, due in part to the overdose, which caused brain damage and left him quadriplegic. Less than a year after the incident, McKenzie moved back to Canada and began working at the Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/03/09/nurse-negligence-ontario-california-mckenzie.html

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"Disgraced" is too light of an adjective to describe this unlicensed nurse.

[inademv]

1. single question

is it actually legal for her to be working in Canada as a nurse?

[CanSocDem]

3. I'm sure it is.

She is a Canadian according to the story, who picked up her "Nurses" license in California. The problem seems to be, beyond the obvious, Trades for Sale nature of her education, the systemic lack of file sharing between franchises in the Medical Industry.

Sort of like the catholic church and its' employees....


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[Boswell]

2. hard to tell at this remove what actually happened