Brigitte Cleroux, 50, has a criminal record that spans three decades, four provinces and two U.S. states.
"The defendant accepted a photocopy of a personal cheque from Cleroux where she had whited out her name at the top of the cheque and handwritten the name Melanie Smith, as confirmation of Cleroux's identity as Melanie Smith," reads a notice to admit sworn in B.C. Supreme Court on Nov. 24. In its response to the original claim, PHSA denies that it should have known Cleroux wasn't a qualified nurse or that her deception should have been discovered with due diligence. It says the health authority was also a victim of fraud and did not authorize any of Cleroux's alleged crimes and misconduct.Cleroux has never held a nursing licence, but over the last two decades, she has been accused or convicted of pretending to be a nurse in Colorado, Ontario, Alberta and B.C.
When she was hired at B.C. Women's Hospital, Cleroux was calling herself Melanie Smith, the name of a real nurse who worked at Vancouver General Hospital but was on maternity leave at the time, according to the notice to admit. It goes on to allege that within one month of working at the hospital, another nurse had raised concerns "about Cleroux unsafely discharging a patient with low oxygen levels," and an anesthesiologist had complained about her using "unnecessary force" on another patient.during her time in Vancouver, including "inappropriate" conduct toward coworkers and was briefly suspended without pay for one day in December 2020.
Desperate for nurses
You couldn’t make this stuff up even if you wanted to… Apparently this “nurse” started an IV line for a patient but rather than setting the line in the the vein, she just put in the muscle. Oops!
Kind of like Trudeau putting clowns in his cabinet
Tell me again why we should believe all women. She is a perfect example of a narcissist liar and there’s hundreds of thousands just like her. So the next time a woman turns on tears and spews her story, think about this b*tch.
Really poor administrators
Can’t wait to see what happens when they speed up the process of vetting credentials letting immigrants into Canada that are supposed to help deal with shortage of workers . Just like the lack of diligence letting loads of immigrants in with fake journeyman papers in past
This is Canada
Dangerous incompetence
Might be time to rethink those vaccine mandates for BC healthcare workers 🤷🏼♀️
When a serial sex offender applied for a place in a women's prison, administrators accepted his declaration that he was 'trans' even though his male genitals had never been altered by surgery. He raped 2 women & was ignored by CBC. KeepPrisonsSingleSex
That sounds like a very thorough vetting process. I bet nothing falls through the cracks there.
this was such an interesting story Bethany Lindsay told in her documentary The Professional
What’s a woman’s hospital? Not a biologist