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December 28, 2024 - 4:00 PM
A BC nurse, who set up a botox clinic which skirted the regulations, is on the hook for $30,425 and has had her licence suspended for five months.
According to a Dec. 20 BC College of Nurses and Midwives decision, Coquitlam-based licenced practical nurse Roshanak Rahi bought botox without a licence and rented a space in an established medical clinic in an effort to make the business look legitimate.
She also used pictures of herself wearing a stethoscope and emphasized her status as a nurse in ads.
On her website "Nurse Rosha" advertised dermal fillers and of 30 units of botox and "face vitamin filler' for $1,260.
However, in BC, a physician has to be present for a nurse to inject a patient with botox, something Rahi didn't do.
The College also found "Nurse Rosha" bought botox in preloaded syringes in a bag of ice.
"(Rahi) administered Botox without personal experience, without physician involvement, and in a medical clinic that had no knowledge or experience with Botox," the decision said.
In 2019, when a College investigator found Rahi's Groupon ad they began investigating.
The decision said she then made "false statements" to investigators.
Rahi told the regulator it had no business investigating her.
"The (College) found that (Rahi’s) failure to cooperate was on the more serious and egregious end of the spectrum in this case because she made false statements to the College, the false statements were in relation to dangerous conduct, the false statements were part of (her) general lack of respect for and resistance to the College’s investigation into the matters it was required to investigate," the decision read.
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The decision said Raho told the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC that she been given permission to do botox injections by the nursing regulator.
"(Rahi) failed to demonstrate honesty and integrity," the decision read.
The decision said Rahi became a licenced practical nurse in July 2018 and her misconduct started in October that year.
The College said that inexperience can sometimes be a mitigating factor, however, in this case her conduct was "dangerous and dishonest" and had nothing to do with inexperience.
Rahi is no longer a licenced practical nurse as her licence has expired.
The College said she had taken no meaningful responsibility for her actions and continued to say she was a victim.
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In ordering her to pay $30,456 in costs, Rahi argued it should be the College paying her instead.
"The (regulator) has not found any fault on my part," she said in one submission, arguing she should be paid $185,760 for "lost income."
Rahi has 12 months to pay the $30,425 and if she does apply to get her licence back will face a five-month suspension followed by strict supervision.
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