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D ELIZABETH GHERSON

NOT ENTITLED TO PRACTICE

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  • Registration History
  • Practice Information
  • Employment Information

Registered Nurse (RN)

Category RN
Class General
Registration Number 8226268
Registration Status Resigned
Initial Registration with CNO 01-Jan-1982

Registration history since 04 Jun, 2009

Registered Nurse (RN)

Category Class Status From To Source
RN General Resigned 12-Dec-2022  
RN General Current 01-Jan-1982 12-Dec-2022

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Reasons Why This Nurse is Not Entitled to Practise What's this?

Date:

12-Dec-2022

Source:

Executive Director

Details:

The member entered into an Undertaking with the Executive Director to permanently resign as a member of CNO as part of an agreed resolution of allegations of professional misconduct heard by a Panel of the Discipline Committee.

Results of Past CNO Hearings What's this?

Source:

Discipline Committee

Date:

12-Dec-2022

Finding Details:

The member was found to have committed professional misconduct in that the member:

  • contravened the standards of practice of the profession and engaged in dishonourable and unprofessional conduct in February 2019 by making inappropriate and offensive comments about the member’s physician colleague, including: referring to the physician using words to the effect that they were “the worst of them all”, a “bitch”, “two faced”, and/or that they were “anti-nurse”; by making comments that were racist, inappropriate and offensive in front of a patient and a nursing student, including: referring to “mixed species” babies and people; and making a statement to the effect of if a “Chinese woman had a baby with a Canadian man the giant baby would not be able to fit through the woman’s pelvis”; and in August 2019, by making inappropriate and offensive comments about and/or towards another patient, including referring to the patient as a “bitch”.

Outcome Date:

12-Dec-2022

Outcome Details:

Upon considering the member’s signed Undertaking to permanently resign as a member of CNO, the Discipline Committee made an Order requiring the member to appear before the panel to be reprimanded.

The content is based on information the nurse or nurse’s employer reports to CNO. The employment contact information may be nursing or non-nursing.

No current employment information on file. Please contact the College for further information.

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