A Surrey nurse has been suspended following the theft of N95 masks

A nurse in Surrey has had her registration suspended for three months after an investigation by the BC College of Nurses and Midwives.

According to a notice posted online yesterday, “a panel of the Inquiry Committee approved a Consent Agreement between the two parties

It states that between 2012 and 2019, the registrant overreported their annual practice hours to the regulator resulting in a discrepancy of 7,623 hours.

The notice also says that nurse committed the theft of a box of N95 masks from a hospital in February of 2020.

In this voluntary arrangement, the registrant has agreed to have their nursing registration suspended for a period of three months and receive a public reprimand.

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The college did not reveal details about where the nurse was employed.