My wife was unfortunate enough to be on the receiving end of a battery of complaints made to the CRNNS by Heather Duff, the D.O.N. of Northside General Hospital here in North Sydney. Mind you, these complaints were made three months after my wife had left the employment of the Cape Breton District Health Authority.
Ann Rose RN, "Investigative Consultant" for the CRNNS undertook the "investigation" into the complaints before finally producing her 180+ page investigative report.
It was an appalling document, full of hearsay and bias, sloppy too, and would have been laughable if it was not so dangerous. Rose ignored the shortcomings of the complainant, (supporting a Manager who had failed to comply with the Workers Compensation Act). The fact that both the complainant and the Manager of Northside ER could not be contacted for several hours when the unit was in crisis seemed to escape Rose's attention, etc., etc.
Rose later made a statement that she did not know who had submitted various documents to her, stating that they had been "pushed under her door"!! Oh, and she said that she made no attempt to check the veracity of these documents, she just picked them up and added them to her file as "evidence" against my wife.
I wrote to Leona Telfer, Director of CRNNS Professional Conduct Services if this kind of evidence collection was CRNNS Policy, she refused to answer my question.
It seems that the high minded ideals as displayed on www.crnns.ca and to be aspired to by the Registered Nurses of Nova Scotia, do not apply to investigations by Ann Rose into complaints made against them.
The reputation and livelihood of any Registered Nurse in Nova Scotia that is the subject of a complaint is being endangered by the attitudes and procedures employed in the CRNNS "investigations;" they are a disgrace.
Wifey was eventually found not guilty of all complaints, but what a stressful few months.
Ann Rose is a crap investigator working for a crap organisation.
