{"id":437975,"date":"2026-01-28T05:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/437975\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T05:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:30:16","slug":"langford-nurse-suspended-after-accessing-patient-records-breaching-prior-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/437975\/","title":{"rendered":"Langford nurse suspended after accessing patient records, breaching prior agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Langford nurse has been suspended for seven months by the B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives due to patient privacy breaches and a failure to comply with earlier disciplinary terms.<\/p>\n

In a notice posted Jan. 21,<\/a> the college says Edgardo Santiago accessed patient records in 2024 and 2025 after the patients had been discharged and after he was no longer involved in their care.<\/p>\n

The college also found Santiago breached the terms of a prior consent agreement by failing to notify BCCNM of changes to his employment circumstances as required.<\/p>\n

Under the new consent agreement, Santiago has voluntarily agreed to a seven-month suspension of his nursing registration. He will also face a further six months of limits on his practice, including a requirement to provide monthly independent confirmation that no additional privacy concerns have arisen.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe college views the privacy of a person\u2019s health information as sacrosanct. Individuals have a right to assume that their information is kept private and everyone in the health care system has an obligation to protect that information,\u201d the BCCNM said in its decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly individuals who are \u2018inside the circle of care\u2019 should access patient records as privacy of patient health information is a fundamental rule and a universal value.\u201d<\/p>\n

The BCCNM Inquiry Committee said it is satisfied the agreed-upon terms will address the professional and practice concerns and protect the public.<\/p>\n

The latest disciplinary action follows an earlier case involving Santiago in 2023, when the college issued a five-month suspension<\/a> after finding he falsified a medical record while working as a nurse in Victoria.<\/p>\n

According to that earlier consent agreement, the college determined Santiago did not adequately assess a patient with a significant medical history and concerning symptoms in July 2020. He later documented that he had conducted a \u201cfulsome assessment,\u201d which the college said had not occurred.<\/p>\n

As part of that 2023 agreement, Santiago was required to complete remedial education in ethics, documentation, patient relations and critical thinking, develop a learning plan, meet with a BCCNM practice consultant and undergo supervised assessments and random documentation audits upon his return to work.<\/p>\n

The college says consent agreements are a key part of its mandate to protect the public, and those who face disciplinary action are expected to fully comply with any conditions imposed on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Langford nurse has been suspended for seven months by the B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives due…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-437975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}