Petitioner: DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, BOARD OF NURSING
Respondent: GIGI SETTERGREN
Judges: T. KENT WETHERELL, II
Agency: Department of Health
Locations: Palm Bay, Florida
Filed: Dec. 19, 2001
Status: Closed
Settled and/or Dismissed prior to entry of RO/FO on Tuesday, March 5, 2002.
Latest Update: Nov. 04, 2024
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STATE OF FLORIDA
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
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vs. Case No. 2001-05958
GIGI SETTERGREN, OL ART Pp L
Respondent.
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ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT
COMES NOW, Petitioner, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, by and through
its undersigned counsel and files this administrative complaint before the Board
of Nursing against the Respondent, Gigi Settergren, and in support thereof
alleges:
| 1. . Petitioner is the state agency charged with regulating the practice
of nursing pursuant to Chapters 20, 456, and 464, Florida Statutes.
2. Pursuant to the authority of Section 20.43(3)(g), Florida Statutes,
the Petitioner has contracted with the Agency for Health Care Administration to
provide consumer complaint, investigative and prosecutorial services required by
the Division of Medical Quality Assurance, councils or boards, as appropriate,
including the issuance of emergency orders of suspension or restriction.
3. - Respondent is and has been at all times material hereto, a licensed
REGISTRED NURSE in the State of Florida, having been issued license number
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4. Respondent's last known address is 16280 Pimlico Drive East,
Loxahatchee, Florida 33470,
5. On or about April 23, 2001, Respondent worked at Wellington
Regional Medical Center, 10101 Forest Hill Bivd., West Palm Beach, Florida
33414.
6. On or about April 23, 2001, Respondent failed to hook up a
Vancomycin pump for a patient as required by a physicians order to do so.
7. On or about April 23, 2001, a co-worker observed Respondent to
be very shaky and to be glassy eyed with her pupils dilated, with trouble
concentrating and looking disheveled.
8. On or about April 23, 2001, Respondent admitted that she took a
Percocet. Respondent refused a mandatory employer drug screen. |
9. On or about April 23, 2001, Respondent failed multiple times to sign
off orders on patients that were assigned to her.
10. On or about April 23, 2001, Respondent, on multiple occasions,
recorded narcotic withdrawal and wasting when no one witnessed the wasting.
11. Based on the foregoing, Respondent is subject to discipline for
violating Section 464.018(1\f), Florida Statutes, by making or filing a false report
or record, which the licensee knows to be false, intentionally or negligently failing
to file a report or record required by state or federal law, willfully impeding or
obstructing such filing or inducing another person to do so. Such report or
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12. ‘Based on the foregoing, Respondent is subject to discipline for
violating Section 464.018(1)(h), Florida Statutes, by unprofessional conduct,
which shall include, but not limited to, any departure from, or the failure to
conform to, the minimal standards of acceptable and prevailing nursing practice,
in which actual injury need not be established. Unprofessional conduct is further
defined in Rule 64B9-8.005(1), Florida Administrative Code, to include inaccurate
recording, falsifying, or altering of a patients records or nursing progress records,
employment applications or time records.
WHEREFORE, Petitioner respectfully request that the Board of Nursing
enter an Order imposing one or more of the following penalties: Revocation or
suspension of Respondent's license, imposition of an administrative fine,
issuance of a reprimand, placement of the Respondent on probation, costs,
and/or any other relief that the Board deems appropriate.
Signed this “Whday of Ocddper 2001,
~ Robert G. Brooks, M.D.
Secretary, Department of Health
DEPARTMENT OF : ” Nancy Snurkowski/Chief Attorney
DEPUTY CLERK On Behalf of the Agency for
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COUNSEL FOR THE PETITIONER:
Reginald D. Dixon, Senior Attomey D& £
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Agency for Health Care Administration
2727 Mahan Drive #39
Tallahassee, Florida 32308
(850) 414-8437
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Docket for Case No: 01-004847PL
Issue Date |
Proceedings |
Aug. 05, 2002 |
Notice of Change of Address (filed by Respondent via facsimile).
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Mar. 05, 2002 |
Order Closing File issued. CASE CLOSED.
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Mar. 04, 2002 |
Responses to Petitioner`s First Set of Interrogatories (filed by Responent via facsimile).
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Mar. 04, 2002 |
Notice of Voluntary Dismissal (filed by Petitioner via facsimile).
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Mar. 04, 2002 |
Motion for Consolidation and/or to Dismiss with Prejudice (filed by Respondent via facsimile).
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Mar. 04, 2002 |
Notice of Filing Responses to Interrogatories (filed by Respondent via facsimile).
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Feb. 28, 2002 |
Addendum to Motion for Extension of Time for Production of Exhibit Documents (filed by Respondent via facsimile).
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Feb. 28, 2002 |
Motion for Extension of Time for Production of Exhibit Documents (filed by Respondent via facsimile).
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Feb. 27, 2002 |
Amended Witness List (filed by Respondent via facsimile).
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Feb. 26, 2002 |
Request for Admissions (filed by Respondent via facsimile).
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Feb. 26, 2002 |
Witness List (filed by Respondent via facsimile).
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Feb. 26, 2002 |
Notice of Filing Respondent`s Interrogatories (filed via facsimile).
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Feb. 26, 2002 |
Notice of Filing Petitioner`s Supplemental Response to Respondent`s Request for Production of Documents (filed via facsimile).
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Feb. 21, 2002 |
Notice of Filing Petitioner`s Response to Respondent`s Request for Production of Documents (filed via facsimile).
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Feb. 12, 2002 |
Notice of Hearing issued (hearing set for March 18, 2002, 9:00 a.m., Palm Bay, Florida).
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Feb. 11, 2002 |
Order Granting Motion for Continuance and Setting Discovery Time Periods issued (hearing cancelled).
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Feb. 11, 2002 |
Notice of Filing Responses to Petitioner`s Request for Admissions (filed via facsimile).
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Feb. 07, 2002 |
Request for Production (filed by Respondent via facsimile).
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Feb. 07, 2002 |
Notice of Appearance (filed by S. Suarez via facsimile).
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Feb. 07, 2002 |
Motion to Continue (filed by Respondent via facsimile).
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Jan. 16, 2002 |
Petitioner`s First Set of Interrogatories filed.
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Jan. 16, 2002 |
Petitioner`s Request for Admissions filed.
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Jan. 16, 2002 |
Notice of Filing Petitioner`s Request for Interrogatories and Admissions filed.
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Jan. 08, 2002 |
Notice of Hearing issued (hearing set for February 26, 2002; 9:00 a.m.; Palm Bay, FL).
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Jan. 08, 2002 |
Order of Pre-hearing Instructions issued.
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Dec. 27, 2001 |
Joint Response to Initial Order (filed via facsimile).
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Dec. 19, 2001 |
Initial Order issued.
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Dec. 19, 2001 |
Administrative Complaint filed.
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Dec. 19, 2001 |
Election of Rights filed.
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Dec. 19, 2001 |
Agency referral filed.
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