ManitobaFaking vaccination records and submitting false expense claims are some of the reasons why Manitoba nurses have been reprimanded by the body that regulates that profession so far this year, according to recently released rulings.Nurse temporarily suspended over inappropriate expense claims, removing callus without required trainingArturo Chang · CBC News · Posted: Oct 03, 2025 6:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours agoA nurse at an Ontario intensive care unit. Disciplinary decisions recently published by the College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba show some of the reasons why some nurses have run afoul of the body that regulates the profession in the province this year. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)Faking vaccination records and submitting inappropriate expense claims are some of the reasons why Manitoba nurses have been reprimanded by the body that regulates that profession so far this year, according to recently released rulings.The disciplinary decisions published by the College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba are updated as of last month, according to the college’s website.One nurse who worked at a wellness centre in Dakota Tipi First Nation near Portage la Prairie was disciplined after her employer found out she improperly submitted at least 25 expense claims, according to a written decision from Sept. 5They included personal gas receipts, duplicate claims, as well as expenses the nurse submitted on behalf of home-care clients and of a former co-worker who was also her boyfriend.The college’s decision said the nurse — who pleaded guilty during a hearing held in July — also admitted to removing a callus on the foot of a diabetic client when she did not have the training to do so. It said the patient developed an infection and lost his great toe after the removal, but that it’s unclear how much the procedure contributed to that.”The registrant admitted their conduct was misguided and they knew they ought not to have performed the act, but wanted to save the client’s toe and his foot,” the decision said, adding that she failed to document or report she’d done so.It said the nurse admitted she’d done similar removals for diabetic and non-diabetic clients at least three times before that. The college suspended her from practising for two weeks and fined her. She was ordered to pay more than $7,000.Nurse fined for tampering with vaccination recordsIn written decision issued a week earlier, the college fined another nurse after she falsified COVID-19 vaccination records during the pandemic.The nurse pleaded guilty after changing personal records for herself and two other people she knew while working at the Indigenous vaccine clinic at Winnipeg’s Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre in 2022.The college said the nurse had admitted to accessing the data after a routine audit found she’d modified her own file. She eventually told her employer — the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority — neither she nor the two others had actually been vaccinated.The woman resigned shortly after the incident and was given an 18-day unpaid suspension, the decision said.The college ordered her to pay more than $10,000. She was also told to complete some remedial coursework at her own cost, including one course on medical ethics and professionalism, within four months of the decision.Censured for feeding stroke patientEarlier this year, the college also censured a nurse for breaching a doctor’s order by giving food to a stroke patient.A committee decided in February to admonish her over the incident, which happened in 2023 according to a notice of censure.The nurse said she was told the patient could take regular medications orally and that she thought that nullified the doctor’s order. She said that when the patient asked for food, she saw them eat applesauce and a sandwich with no difficulty.She told her employer she had performed a swallowing assessment, but the notice said that this was not in her scope of practice, and that she did not document it. The notice said the nurse admitted she did not have formal training to conduct that kind of assessment.”You overwhelmingly failed to act and meet your professional standards and obligations when in direct possession of a provider’s orders that stated a patient was to have nothing by mouth until a swallowing assessment was conducted by a speech language pathologist,” the notice said.”This failure resulted in a significant and unjustified risk to patient safety.” The nurse was ordered to pay $1,000
Winnipeg nurse who faked vaccine records among caregivers punished by college this year
