Fake Pinoy nurse fined in Canada

Fake Pinoy nurse fined in Canada. A court in Winnipeg, Manitoba province in Canada has imposed a fine of $3,000 on a Fake Pinoy nurse fined in Canada Filipino who tried to pass himself off as a qualified nurse.

An abs-cbn.com report, citing an online article in the Winnipeg Free Press, said Edwin Canseco, 37, pleaded guilty to violating Manitoba’s Registered Nurses Act by falsifying his credentials.

The report said Canseco was fired in January after medical staff discovered he wasn’t registered in the College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba’s online database. The report said Canseco was hired in December 2005.

Canseco came to Winnipeg in 1997 after completing a four-year Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from the Galang Medical Center College in Manila in 1992.

The Filipino said he worked as a nurse for one year after graduation, but then switched careers, working as a sales representative for a medical equipment supply company.

“Crown attorney Catherine Howden told court Canseco tried to register as an international applicant with the College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba in November 2000 after arriving from the Philippines. He didn’t have the proper qualifications and enrolled in a Red River College course that helps foreign-trained registered nurses acquire the necessary skills for the nursing exams,” the report said.

Canseco twice failed the Manitoba registered nurse’s exam, the report added. -philippine star