Lakeshore Hospital nurse suspended for 5 months after patient's death
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A nurse has been suspended for five months from the Lakeshore General Hospital after a patient died while desperately calling for help from staff and his family.
A nurse has been suspended for five months from the Lakeshore General Hospital after a patient died on his watch.
The 81-year-old man, called F.C. in the document, was ringing a bell and calling his partner in a panic while suffering from severe chest pain at the hospital in Pointe-Claire in 2022, according to a March 1 Quebec Order of Nurses Disciplinary Council ruling.
Kishore Baijoonauth was suspended for "having demonstrated negligence in providing care and treatments provided to a client, in particular by not carrying out the assessment and follow-up required by their state of health," the judgment reads.
Baijoonauth pleaded guilty on Jan. 24 to the disciplinary complaint made in September and has been suspended and ordered to pay all expenses related to the complaint investigation.
The ruling recounts F.C.'s trying two days from June 14 to 16, 2022 when he was admitted to the Lakeshore emergency room while waiting to be transferred to the Royal Victoria Hospital to undergo heart surgery.
On June 15, the document says that the patient complained of chest pains, and Baijoonauth noted it in his file and gave him a Tylenol.
Later, the patient "explains that he has pain in his chest, arms, and jaw, that he informs the staff, but that they do not listen to him."
