A Manitoba nurse has pleaded guilty to professional misconduct after she worked shifts at an Intensive Care Unit in the province without the proper training and misrepresented her credentials at her business.

Eleonor Mascardo, who has been registered as a nurse in Manitoba since October 2022, was fined $8,000, had to pay $5,000 in costs and was suspended from practice for two weeks, amongst other disciplinary actions following the admission, said a June 24 decision recently posted on the College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba’s website.

In it, Mascardo admitted she took a Jan. 11, 2024, shift at the Brandon Regional Health Centre’s ICU through a nursing agency, even though she lacked the proper skills, said the decision, noting she had no certificate of practice from Dec. 31, 2023, until April 4, 2024.

This included failing to start a blood transfusion and not alerting other staff, misleading others about starting an IV and failing on at least two occasions to administer total parenteral nutrition after being ordered to do so.

BRANDON — A Crown prosecutor has asked a Brandon judge to impose a 29-year sentence on a man who sexually abused his two daughters for several years.

“(He) was in the supreme apex position of trust over both these children. It was his job to keep them safe. He did the very opposite,” Crown attorney Rich Lonstrup told a Court of King’s Bench judge Tuesday.

The 34-year-old man from a community in southwestern Manitoba pleaded guilty to possessing, making and distributing child sexual abuse material, incest and two counts of sexual interference.

The Brandon Sun is not naming the offender because it could identify the victims.