An Aberdeen care worker has been suspended for three months after failing to tell colleagues about a patient’s fall.
Waleola Tade later said she was unsure why the man, who was found to have a broken arm, had been “crying out” in pain.
Miss Tade had been the sole nurse working at Kingsmead Nursing Home, in Kingswells, on March 27, 2017.
She told the Nursery and Midwifery Council (NMC) that she found the man, known only as Patient A, in an “uncomfortable position” at the foot of his wheelchair.
Unable to position the sling and hoist mechanism he required in order to be moved, she tried to manually lift him onto his bed then removed his jumper, causing him to “cry out in pain”.
Miss Tade then called for another colleague to check the man over, but did not reveal to them he had fallen.
The NMC argued that this was an attempt to “minimise” what had happened and hide the possible cause of his injury.
But the body also acknowledged that the nurse had agreed her decision to move the man without a hoist was clinically wrong.
The organisation ruled her actions had “breached one of the fundamental tenets of the nursing profession” and suspended her for three months.
Kingsmead Nursing Home was strongly condemned by the Care Inspectorate in 2007 for not treating residents with “dignity and respect”. It was closed down soon after.
