Note: pdf file. Here is the actual complaint.
Interesting that this was alleged to take place almost exactly 2 years ago. So she certainly could be sanctioned for refusing to replace the IUD.
Okay, there’s a “Nurse Licensure Compact” referred to in the NM Nursing Practice Act. It seems to permit multi-state licensure, but I don’t know if this means holding multiple licenses simultaneously or being allowed to practice in a state in the compact without a license for that state (but with one in a different compact state).
Another pdf from the “New Mexico Medical Board” in Santa Fe dated April 2005. On page 7, Sylvia Olona is on a list of “PA Licenses not renewed in 2005”.
However, she apparently does have a current license from that body, if that is indeed the same person.
Okay, she is a “lapsed” Certified Nurse Aide in Colorado, but has not been licensed in the other nursing compact states bordering NM. Interestingly, she had this (apparently less-skilled) job after her nursing license in NM.
None of this may mean anything. It’s just a change of pace not to be looking up misdeeds by members of my own profession once in a while.
There is a thread over at allnurses.com saying that this Olona woman is actually a Physician’s Assistant, and has been for over thirty years.
I shudder to think what your daughter’s boyfriends would go through.
(kidding)
ETA: Also, I bet you get excused from jury duty quite handily
<–I’m wrong, that’s a different S. Olona. Ignore previous post.
Interesting. It appears from your link that she was a PA at the time of the complaint, so was she also an NP, or misidentified, or in violation of the practice act (and maybe title act)? And if she didn’t renew, it could be that there are times she wasn’t licensed, or not licensed in NM, or she just paid late that year.
Your PDF states “At all times material hereto, she was a certified nurse practitioner” but doesn’t specify state. I can’t find evidence of a license on the NM nursing board’s licensee lookup.
I try to use my powers for good, not for evil. That said, I wouldn’t resort to subterfuge, but I would see what the putz, er, young gentleman had to say about sex and drugs on public social networking sites.
Jury, maybe. Grand jury, they just tell me that it’s not my job to look at the law.
No shit. Mine was good for 10 years, it hurt going in, and it hurt coming out.
That said, there are often excellent reasons why a woman would want (or need) a non-hormonal contraceptive. It’s not up to a PA to decide which contraception I must use to avoid offending her.
If the plaintiff’s claims are indeed accurate, Ms. Olona shouldn’t be allowed to practice in OB/GYN.
Robin
Or perhaps at all. She doesn’t seem to understand her professional ethics or the law very well.
One day this Olona woman’s going to pull this shtick, and a woman is going to slip her foot out of the stirrup and kick her right upside the head.
And she’ll deserve it.
Again, even IF the the plaintiff is lying, and the nurse was the one telling the truth, she still shouldn’t be doing this procedure, as by her own admission, she doesn’t know what the hell she’s doing!
This admission
is part of the plantiff’s testimony. So if the plantiff is lying, the nurse may not have even made that statement.
I if I were a woman and the nurse removed the first one, I’d be damned if I would permit her to install another.
You have a valid point, but if I were the woman in the stirrups, I’d be too gobsmacked to be thinking very clearly.
It looks like the lawsuit was filed about 2 years ago. I wonder what’s happened to it?
Sometimes the damn things do pop out with just a very, very light tug on the string.
Not very often, though.
And when they do, it generally means they were going to pop out during the next menses anyway.
I’d not entrust one of my Nurse Practitioners to checking them if she was known tohave a lot of them pop out on her.
QtM, it looks like she’s a PA, not an NP (see above).
In that case, I’d not entrust one of my Physician Assistants to checking them if she was known to have a lot of them pop out on her.
Just trying to be precise.