BETWEEN: COLLEGE OF NURSES OF ONTARIO. ands ELIZABETH TRACY MAE WETTLAUFER REGISTRATION NO. 9581737 NOTICE OF HEARING ITIS ALLEGED THAT: ‘You have committed an act of professional misconduct as provided by subsection ‘S1(1Y(6) ofthe Health Professions Procedural Code ofthe Nursing Act, 1991, 'S.0. 1991, c.32, as amended, and defined in subsection 1(7) of Ontario ‘Regulation 799/93, in that while employed asa Registered Nurse, you abused a client verbally, physically or emotionally, by administering overdoses of insulin to the following clients with the intent to harm and/or cause their death: & —_onorbetween June 25, 2007 and December 31, 2007, to Clotilde Adriano at Caressant Care Nursing Home, in Woodstock, Ontario (*Caressaat"); andior 6. omor between June 25, 2007 and December 31, 2007, to Al Demedeiros at Caressant; and/or © omor about August 11, 2007, to James Siloox at Caressant; and/or 4. onor between December 22, 2007 and December 23, 2007, to Maurice Granat at Caressant; and/or © anor between September 1, 2008 and December 31, 2008, to Wayne. “Hedges at Caressant; and/ot £ —onor between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2009, to Michael Priddle at Caressant; and/or & — onor between October 13, 2011 and October 14, 2011, to Gladys Millard at Catessant; and/or ‘0n or between October 25, 2011 and October 26, 2011, to Helen Matheson at Caressant; and/or i. omor between November 6, 2011 and November 7, 2011, to Mary ‘urawinski at Caressant; and/or2 i. omor between July 13, 2013 and July 14, 2013, to Helen Young at Caressant; and/or Kk. onorbetween March 22, 2014 and March 28, 2014, to Maureen Pickering at Caressant; and/or 1. onor between August 23, 2014 and August 31, 2014, to Aspad Horvath at Meadow Park Nursing Home, in London, Onttio; and: 'm. —_onor between September 1, 2015 and September 30, 2015, 1 Sandra ‘Towler at Telfer Place Long Term Care Facility, in Pais, Ontario; and/or 1, on or about August 21, 2016, to Beverly Bertram at the client's home in Ingersoll, Ontario, while working for Saint Elizabeth Health Care; and/or ‘You have committed an act of professional misconduct as provided by subsection ‘51(1)() of the Health Professions Procedural Code ofthe Nursing Act, 1991, 5.0. 1991, c. 32, as amended, and defined in subsection 1(37) of Ontario ‘Regulation 799/93, in that while employed as a Registered Nurse, you engaged in ‘conductor performed an ac, relevant tothe practice of nursing, hat, having. regard to all the circumstances, would reasonably be regarded by members as disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional, by administering overdoses of insulin to the following clients with the intent t harm andor cause their death: &. —_omor between June 25, 2007 and December 31, 2007, to Clotilde Adriano at Caressant Care Nursing Home, in Woodstock, Ontario (“Caressant andjor b. _onor between June 25, 2007 and December 31, 2007, to Albina Demedeiros at Caressant; and/or © enor about August 11, 2007, to James Siteox at Caressant; andlor 4. onor between December 22, 2007 and December 23, 2067, to Maurice Granat at Caressant; and/or © onorbetween September 1, 2008 and December 31, 2008, to Wayne Hedges at Caressant; and/or £ —onorbetween January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2008, to Michael Priddle at Caressant; and/or3 ‘on or between October 13, 2011 and October 14, 2011, to Gladys Millard al Caressant; andor h. —onorbetween October 25, 2011 and October 26, 2011, to Helen Matheson. at Caressant; and/or i. onorbetween November 6, 2011 and November 7,011, to Mary Zurawinski at Caressant and/or J onor between July 13, 2013 and July 14, 2013, to Helen Young at CCaressant; and/or Kk. onorbetwesn March 22, 2014 and March 28, 2014, 1o Maureen Pickering at Caressant; and/or 1. onorbetween August 23, 2014 and August 31, 2014, to Arpad Horvath at ‘Meadow Park Nursing Home, in London, Ontario; and/or m. on orbetween September 1, 2015 and September 30, 2015, to Sandra ‘Towler at Telfer Place Long Term Care Facility, in Pars, Ontario; and/or 8. onorabout August 21, 2016, to Beverly Bertram at the client's home in Ingersoll, Ontario, while working for Saint Elizabeth Health Care, ‘The allegations respecting professional misconduct on your part will be heard by a panel of the Discipline Commitice of the College of Nurses of Ontario, pursuant to the Nursing Act, 1991, 8.0. 1991, 32, as amended, and subsection 38(1) of the Health Professions Procedural Code, on July 25, 2017, at 0930 hours, at the Hearings Room ofthe College of [Nurses of Ontario, a 101 Davenport Road, Toronto, Ontario, I you fil to attend in person or by representative, the panel of the Discipline Commitee ‘may proceed in your absence and you are thereafter not entiled to any further notice ofthe procesdings. Where the panel of the Discipline Commitee finds a member has committed an act of professional misconduct, it may make an Order doing any one or more ofthe following: 1. ireetng the Registrar to revoke the member's certificae of registration; 2 directing the Registrar to suspend the member's certificate of registration for a ‘specified period of time;4 irecting the Registrar to impose specified terms, conditions and limitations on the ‘member’ ceificate of registration fora specified or indefinite period of time; 4. requiting the member to appear before the pane! tobe reprimanded; requiring the member to pay a fine of not more than $35,000.00 to the Minister of Finance; 6. requiting the member to reimburse the College for funding provided for a program ‘of therapy and counselling for a person if the act of professional misconduct was the sexual abuse ofthat person; and 7. requiring the member to post security acceptable to tke College to guarantee the payment of any amounts the member may be required to reimburse the College for a program of therapy and counselling fora person who was sexually abused by the member. Furthermore, the panel may suspend the effect of its Order fora specified period of time and ‘on specified concitions and where it makes an Order under paragraph 2 or 3 above, it may specify criteria to be satisfied for the removal of a suspension of the removal of terms, Conditions and limitations imposed by the Order on the member’ certificate of registration. Where a pane! of the Discipline Commitee finds a member has committed an act of professional misconduct, it may make an Order requiring the member to pay all or part of the following costs and expenses: 1. the Coleg’ egal costs and expenses; 2 the College's costs and expenses incu in investigating the mater; and 3. the College's costs and expenses incued in conducting te hearing DATED at Toronto, Ontari, 23% day of June, 2017 Karen McGovern, RN, BSCN, LLB Director, Professional Conduct College of Nurses of Ontario