Elizabeth Wettlaufer – the former nurse accused of killing eight residents at Ontario long-term care homes – was suspended four times from her duties at Caressant Care in Woodstock, Ont. over medical-related mistakes, court documents show. Court documents made public this week revealed that Wettlaufer had a history of complaints filed against her and was subject to a series of warnings and suspensions because of medication-related errors while working at the long-term care facility between 2007 and 2014 when she was fired. Wettlaufer faces 14 charges, including eight counts of first-degree murder of eight residents at Ontario long-term care homes. She also stands accused of four counts of attempted murder and two counts of aggravated assault. The alleged …show more content…
Seven of the murder charges and two of the attempted murder charges relate to residents of Caressant Care, a nursing and retirement home in Woodstock, Ont. On March 31, 2014, the 49-year-old was fired from Caressant Care “for failing to follow insulin protocol,” according to the documentation used to obtain a production order. Her dismissal letter referred to it as “another incident in a pattern of behaviours that are placing residents at risk.” “You have an extensive disciplinary record for medication-related errors which includes numerous warnings as well as one, three, and two five day suspensions,” the dismissal letter said. Months later, Wettlaufer got another nursing job at Meadow Park Care Centre in London, Ont. where she is accused of killing Arpad Horvath in August 2014. The 75-year-old former businessman had died days after being “found unresponsive with very low blood-sugar.” Wettlaufer was his nurse at the time, the documents show – as she was on three previous occasions when he was found with low blood-sugar