Nurses barred over assault and other charges

THREE nurses have been barred from the profession for reasons including assaulting a nursing home patient, the unauthorised use of medicine and the failure to properly monitor a patient in their care following recent decisions of the nursing board, An Bord Altranais.

A male nurse, Stephen Boyling, was found guilty of professional misconduct on 12 separate counts over his treatment of a patient while on duty in the intensive care unit of an unnamed hospital on September 23-24, 2008.

The board’s fitness to practise committee ruled that Mr Boyling had failed to properly assess the patient and to comply with directions given by the medical team in relation to the ventilator support to be given overnight to the patient.