A nurse who admitted turning up for work intoxicated at a care home in Aberdeen has been struck off.
Jade Murray qualified as a nurse in 2012 and started work at Maryfield East Care Home in August 2014.
But just three months into the role she behaved inappropriately at work and was found to be under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs.
Murray claimed before being suspended last year that an underlying medical condition was responsible for her behaviour but this was not accepted.
And now she has been struck off because there was “no evidence of full insight” into the consequences of her actions.
She confessed to four charges she faced from the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and another against her was proven.
In September 2015, she failed two medications competency assessments.
And in the next month she was found to have failed to apply a dressing to a resident’s leg properly and, in November, signed a medication administration record to indicate Lorazepam had been administered when this had not been done.
A statement from the NMC said: “In her most recent e-mail of July 6, 2016 Miss Murray has sought to persuade the panel that she has reflected on and continues to address an underlying health issue which may have impacted on her behaviour.
“However, the panel has no medical evidence to support her state of health at the time or any steps she has taken since to address the issue.
“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.”
