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November 15, 2022 - 6:00 AM
Add another name to the list of B.C. nurses who got caught snooping on private health information.
The B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives has issued a public notice that Kelly Yang of Surrey is being publicly reprimanded for what it calls “conduct issues.”
Between May and November, 2021, Yang “access(ed) confidential patient information when she did not have a work-related purpose for doing so.”
The notice from the college — like most disciplinary actions in which it comes to a ‘consent resolution” with the nurse — contained no other information. The public reprimand is sole form of action.
"The Inquiry Committee is satisfied that the terms will protect the public," the notice says.
This is the sixth nurse this year sanctioned for accessing private medical records.
In October, Port Coquitlam's Alanna Morse was suspended for 14 days for "repeatedly" accessing patient records for non-work-related purposes.
In March, Kelowna nurse Megan Angel was suspended for three weeks after she checked the medical records of a potential nanny she was considering hiring.
Three months later, Vernon nurse Michael Wood received a six-month suspension for looking at medical records he shouldn't have.
Shortly afterwards, Kelowna nurse Sondra Bader received an eight-day suspension for the unauthorized checking of someone's medical records.
In September, two nurses from the Lower Mainland were suspended for 60 days for collectively checking the records of more than 250 patients.
In August, a Kelowna woman said she tried to find answers about how her personal health information was obtained after after learning a mutual acquaintance somehow knew information before she did. She complained to Interior Health, which investigated but couldn't tell her what they found for "privacy reasons."
READ MORE: 'Frustrating': Interior Health stonewalls victim after nurse snoops on her medical records
Interior Health wouldn't tell iNFOnews.ca much, either.
"When inappropriate access has been identified, the employee’s manager and HR are notified immediately. Anyone proven to be non-compliant with these policies would be subject to appropriate discipline, based on the severity of the privacy breach," Interior Health said in an emailed statement in August.
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