Nurse who failed to check patients, give medicine has registration cancelled
The nurse worked at Starship Hospital in 2016. (Photo / Google Maps)
Nurse who failed to check patients, give medicine has registration cancelled Wed, 30 Jun 2021, 9:11AM
An Auckland nurse who falsified and forged notes, lied about checking on her young patients and failed to give them their medicine has had her nursing registration cancelled for three years.
The nurse, who has 24 years experience, had been working on the night shifts at Starship Hospital when two parents of the young patients and two colleagues complained about the level of care given by her over a period of five-and-a-half weeks.
The woman was unable to sleep one night and requested diazepam. The duty nurse refused because she had been given another dose less than four hours earlier, but he did give her sleeping medication. The patient went outside later that night and met up with a friend in a car park. The nurse noticed the woman was back in her bed about 4.30am, but was still awake. He sat down next to her and encouraged her to go to sleep, the tribunal’s report said. The nurse claimed the patient hugged him, then placed his hand on her breast. He alleged he pulled his hand away, but the situation escalated and the patient asked him to have sex with her.