Under the terms of a consent agreement posted Thursday on the BC College of Nurses and Midwives website, Carole Garfield was under investigation for actions that occurred in September 2021. The college says Garfield contacted the client while she was off duty, using her personal cell phone and email to provide information about the COVID-19 vaccine. The exact nature of the “pseudoscience methods” Garfield recommended to the client was not mentioned in the college’s release. Garfield’s nursing license was revoked in April, according to the college registry. It is unclear exactly how the four-week suspension will be implemented. CBC News reached out to the college for more information. In addition to the one-month suspension and public reprimand, Garfield is not allowed to be the only nurse on duty for six months. She will also be given training on ethics, boundaries and client privacy, as well as the province’s professional nursing standards. “The examining committee is satisfied that the terms will protect the public,” the college said in a statement. Earlier this month, a Nanaimo nurse was suspended for asking a colleague to create fake vaccine records in 2021.
