A nurse in Kelowna has been suspended for three weeks after it was discovered he had illegally accessed private health care records.
This is the third nurse to be suspended in Kelowna for accessing private health care information in 2022.
According to the BC College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM), the nurse, Antonius (Ton) Gremmen, agreed to the suspension through a consent agreement.
In a brief statement, the BCCNM said: “In March 2022, Mr. Gremmen violated a patient’s expectation of privacy when he accessed the patient’s personal health record without clinical justification.
“Mr. Gremmen then provided details of the patient’s treatment to a third party when he was expressly prohibited from doing so.”
As part of the consent agreement, Gremmen agreed to a three-week suspension of his nursing registration and will enrol for a remedial course in responsible nursing.
No specific reason was given as to why Gremmen accessed the patient records he did.
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