The nurse involved in a medication error affecting 11 patients at a city-operated nursing home in Scarborough last week is no longer employed by the City of Toronto, officials said yesterday.
Sandra Pitters, general manager of the city's homes for the aged division, said that, because of privacy legislation, she could not say whether the nurse was dismissed or had resigned, but added "the nurse involved is devastated by the incident."
One patient at the Seven Oaks Home for the Aged who received an excessive amount of the drug amantadine, which is given to reduce the symptoms of influenza A, died later in hospital. The coroner's office is investigating. Staff