Nurse who insulted Joyce Echaquan asks family’s forgiveness, tells inquest she was overworked – CBC
May 20, 2021
Coroner’s inquest hears nurse admit she got mad the morning of Echaquan’s death
The nurse who was filmed by Joyce Echaquan moments before her death in a Quebec hospital is asking for the family’s forgiveness, and said she had never had that kind of outburst with a patient before.
The nurse, whose name is protected by a publication ban, was fired from the Centre hospitalier régional de Lanaudière in Joliette, Que., after the incident. She testified about what happened on the day the 37-year-old Atikamekw woman died during a coroner’s inquest Thursday in Trois-Rivières, Que.
A Facebook Live video that Echaquan shared the morning of her death captured the nurse saying Echaquan “was better off dead.”
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