New York Nurses Cited for Falsification of Records
Jean Frantz Louisme and Aniamma Alex Philip were both recently cited by the state Board of Regents for their part in a November 27, 2007 incident at Rockland Psychiatric Center in New York.
Louisme was working as a registered nurse when another nurse advised him that she had determined that a patient had not received the prescribed drug Risperidone between November 7 and November 27, 2007. Louisme then made entries into the patient's chart showing that the drug had been administered when he did not know that the drug had actually been given. He admitted to practicing the profession of nursing with gross negligence, placed on professional probation for two years, and fined $750.
Philip was cited for practicing the profession of nursing fraudulently. She admitted that "she knowingly falsified the medication administration record of a patient so that it reflected the repeated administration of a medication when I knew it had not been administered". She, too, was placed on professional probation and fined $750.
