A nurse who admitted turning up for work intoxicated at a care home in Aberdeen has been suspended for a year.
Jade Murray qualified as a nurse in 2012 and started work at Maryfield East Care Home in August 2014.
During November that year, she behaved inappropriately at work and was found to be under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs.
She subsequently faced seven separate charges, imposed by the Nursing and Midwifery Council – four of which were proven.
In September 2015, she failed to pass two medications competency assessments.
The following month, she failed to apply a dressing to a resident’s leg properly and, in November, signed a medication administration record to indicate that Lorazepam had been administered when this had not been done.
A statement from the NMC said: “In the absence of evidence of full insight or any remediation of the failings admitted and found proved, the panel is not confident that Miss Murray will not repeat her actions.
“It is therefore satisfied that there is a risk of repetition.
“The panel has therefore determined that Miss Murray’s fitness to practice is currently impaired by reason of her misconduct and that to find otherwise would undermine public confidence in the profession and in the NMC as a regulatory body.”
Miss Murray was given a 12-month suspension order.
