{"id":654145,"date":"2026-05-07T17:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/654145\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T17:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:19:11","slug":"college-of-nurses-finds-two-nurses-guilty-of-conduct-deserving-of-sanction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/654145\/","title":{"rendered":"College of Nurses Finds Two Nurses Guilty of Conduct Deserving of Sanction"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(VOCM News)<\/p>\n

The College of Nurses has released the outcome of separate adjudication panels on the conduct of two nurses in the province. <\/p>\n

The Adjudication Tribunal found Kimberley Dyke<\/a>, who worked in the obstetrics unit at Carbonear General, guilty of conduct deserving of sanction because of an admitted addiction and her fitness to work in a competent manner. <\/p>\n

Her licence to practice was suspended pending the completion of a competency assessment and the provision of three negative random toxicology screens, as well as a medical report from her physician confirming her fitness to return to nursing practice. <\/p>\n

Paul Briffett was found guilty<\/a> of conduct deserving of sanction stemming from a workplace investigation in which concerns were raised by his employer about providing false information, interfering with a witness, and engaging in \u201cinappropriate conduct in the workplace with a subordinate\u201d among other concerns. <\/p>\n

The conduct took place while Briffett worked as a director in the Western Zone in the Long Term Care department.<\/p>\n

His licence to practice will be reinstated once the Director of Professional Conduct Review is presented with a letter confirming fitness to practice. He is to attend counselling as recommended by a mental health practitioner and have his practice monitored for a specific period of time with quarterly practice monitoring reports, among other actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (VOCM News) The College of Nurses has released the outcome of separate adjudication panels on the conduct…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-654145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654145","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=654145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}