African senior nurse gets a caution after neglecting a patient, and using unsterilised equiptment on a pressure sore
This situation is past a joke.
If you type NHS in the search bar of this blog you will find a succession of cases, were mal practice by 3rd world nurses/doctors, has literally cost the lives of tax paying Britons.
This case was not so serious, but how could a senior nurse make the basic mistakes listed in the article below?
Next time you hear someone extolling the virtues of immigrant medical staff, the author of this blog sincerely hopes you put them straight.
The fitness to practice hearings for October 2010 are listed on the Nursing and Midwifery Council website here
Yes, there is a large number of African nurses on the list.
The Birmingham Mail reports - A BIRMINGHAM mental health nurse has received a two-year caution for failing to provide adequate care to a patient.
Lindelwa Mnyaka, a 36-year-old senior nurse, went before the Nursing and Midwifery Council(NMC) admitting she had made “mistakes”.
A NMC Panel heard Mnyaka failed to inform a specialist nurse that an elderly patient had a serious pressure sore, describing the problem as only “superficial”.
The nurse also failed to update the patient’s care plan to reflect a deteriorating condition and in a separate incident, didn’t use sterilised instruments when dealing with the sore while working at Collingwood Court Nursing Centre, in Clapham, London, in December 2005.
“Mnyaka conceded that her decision to offer her own assessment of the severity of the pressure sore in place of what her manager had said was a mistake,” said a NMC spokeswoman.
Mnyaka stated she was insufficiently trained for the role.
Since the incident, the nurse has been working in a smaller Birmingham care home under close supervision. The panel ruled not using sterile equipment exposed the patient to risk of harm.
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