A trio of nurses employed in the B.C. Corrections system have been suspended for accessing patient records without authorization. The B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives published disciplinary orders for Alix Stera, Nigel Pastrana and Agnes Bacsa on Aug. 28, though each one consented to the orders against them months earlier. Stera and Pastrana are listed in the BCCNM’s online directory as working for Fraser Regional Correctional Centre in Maple Ridge, while Bacsa’s employer is listed as Correctional Health Services. All three nurses were disciplined, according to the college, after admitting to “having accessed the medical records of a person not in (their) care.” Stera’s misconduct involved a single instance of unauthorized access, as did Bacsa’s. Each woman agreed to a seven-day suspension. Stera, a licensed practical nurse, consented to the disciplinary order against her on May 29, according to the college. The unauthorized access occurred in April 2025. Bacsa, a registered nurse, also committed her misconduct in April 2025. She consented to her discipline order on June 15 of this year. Pastrana is an LPN. He admitted to accessing medical records of a person not in his care “on several occasions,” according to the BCCNM. His misconduct occurred in April and May of 2025, and he consented to a 14-day suspension of his licence on June 10 of this year. “The privacy of medical records is core to the trust that clients and others must be able to place in nurses,” the college said in each of its three public notices about the discipline orders. “Privacy breaches violate that trust and can be assumed to harm both the nurse-client relationship and the sense of safety for anyone whose privacy was breached.” The BCCNM’s investigation committee also considered that each of the three licensees “had no previous disciplinary record, made full admissions, engaged in remedial actions and gained no advantage from the conduct,” according to the notices. It’s unclear from the notices whether the misconduct each nurse admitted to was related to the behaviour of the others, or if each one acted independently. Asked for more information, the BCCNM told CTV News it “cannot share any additional details beyond what has been published” in the notices on its website. The provincial Ministry of Public Safety said B.C. Corrections nurses are “employed under the Provincial Health Services Authority,” and forwarded questions to that agency. This story will be updated if a response is received from the PHSA.
