TORONTO — An Ontario nurse who admitted to snooping into the medical records of patients will have her licence suspended for four months and face a formal reprimand.
The College of Nurses of Ontario has also ordered Mandy Edgerton — formerly Mandy Reid — to undergo remedial training on privacy rules.
According to college documents, Edgerton committed professional misconduct between January 2010 and September 2013 by accessing personal health information without consent related to about 300 patients at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre in Peterborough, Ont.
The registered nurse also failed to maintain appropriate boundaries with a client and the client's family when she discussed personal issues, took personal friends to the home of the client, invited her family for dinner at the home of the client and travelled with the family of a client for an event, the documents show.
The health centre fired Edgerton for the privacy breach, according to the Peterborough Examiner, which reported that she looked into the records of people she knew and cases she found interesting.
One woman told the Examiner she was embarrassed because Edgerton had shown her sensitive medical records to her classmates.
