On November 10, 2020 a panel of the Inquiry Committee approved a Consent Agreement between BCCNM and Jody Crombie of Campbell River, to address conduct occurring from 2017 to 2019 related to developing a friendship with a client who was in recovery for mental health and substance use challenges, which he had suffered for multiple decades. The friendship included activities outside the scope of her care relationship including exchanging personal phone calls, going for coffee together, stroking the client's arm in an intimate manner, and permitting the client to walk her to car and embrace her when she left his care facility. The Registrant formally severed the nurse-client relationship one day after the client's discharge, and approximately one week later they moved in together and began cohabitating. Following the break-up of their 15-month relationship, the client returned to active addiction and homelessness.
The Registrant has voluntarily agreed to an 18-month suspension of her registration followed by a long-term limits and conditions on her nursing registration which include a limit preventing her from working with a patient population that is primarily receiving nursing care for substance misuse disorders, a limit preventing her from being the sole RN or providing regulatory oversight of nursing students and/or colleagues, a program of regulatory practice consultations, and remedial education related to ethics and appropriate boundary keeping.
The Inquiry Committee is satisfied that the terms will protect the public.