Former psychiatric nurse settles action for €140k

A FORMER psychiatric nurse who says she was attacked and dragged along a floor by a patient who allegedly should have been in a restraining jacket in Our Lady’s Hospital, Cork, has settled her action for damages in the High Court for a figure understood to be about €140,000.

The settlement was without admission of liability.

The proceedings were taken by Eileen Kennedy of Sliabh Luachra, Curraheen, Carrigrohane, Co Cork, against the Health Service Executive, who denied the claims concerning the incident which occurred on May 31, 2004, while Ms Kennedy was working on the night shift at the hospital.