GrantDawg
02-21-2006, 06:42 AM
'Fish face' nurse gets the sack
From correspondents in London
February 20, 2006
<!-- end page title and right promo --><!-- floating lead items --><!-- end floating lead items -->A NURSE who slapped a colleague's face with a frozen trout before moving the fish's lips and saying: "give us a kiss" has been struck off.
Britain's Nursing and Midwifery Council ruled at a disciplinary hearing that Patricia Jennings, 55, who also poked a woman's breasts to see if she was pregnant should be banned from practising to protect the public.
In a bad week for the reputation of the nursing profession, Christine Mitchelson, 52, of Newcastle was struck off after the tribunal heard she put a patient's glass eye in a glass of Coca Cola and served it to her ward sister. Ms Mitchelson faced 12 counts of professional misconduct, including drawing a smiley face on a patient's hernia.
From correspondents in London
February 20, 2006
<!-- end page title and right promo --><!-- floating lead items --><!-- end floating lead items -->A NURSE who slapped a colleague's face with a frozen trout before moving the fish's lips and saying: "give us a kiss" has been struck off.
Britain's Nursing and Midwifery Council ruled at a disciplinary hearing that Patricia Jennings, 55, who also poked a woman's breasts to see if she was pregnant should be banned from practising to protect the public.
In a bad week for the reputation of the nursing profession, Christine Mitchelson, 52, of Newcastle was struck off after the tribunal heard she put a patient's glass eye in a glass of Coca Cola and served it to her ward sister. Ms Mitchelson faced 12 counts of professional misconduct, including drawing a smiley face on a patient's hernia.