Nurses barred over assault and other charges
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.
It also found that Mr Boyling had failed to set alarms to adequately monitor the patient and that he had inappropriately left the patient unattended.
In a separate case, Sr Mary Kate Murphy, who was registered as a general nurse as well as a public health nurse and midwife, was also struck off after she had seven allegations of professional misconduct proven against her.
Sr Murphy was found to have obtained medication for her own personal use by falsifying and altering prescriptions as well as taking medication prescribed for patients on dates between October 2008 and March 2009. Among the medicines taken by Sr Murphy was Severdol — a form of morphine.
An Bord Altranais found she had shown up for work while under the influence of opiates and that she was unfit to practice as a nurse because of her drug addiction.
In another case, Nurse Mary Anne Morris had her name erased from the Nursing Register after the board found she had assaulted a resident at a nursing home where she worked as a matron on November 2, 2007.
Ms Morris was accused of striking the elderly man about the upper body, face and ear as well as confining him to his room.
She also falsely informed the nursing home owner that marks on the man’s body were burns which occurred when he was given a shower by another nurse.
It is understood the case related to an incident at a nursing home in Co Kilkenny.
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