Sanctions for nurses over misconduct
Nurse Mary Colette McMahon was struck off after taking controlled drugs including morphine, as well as needles and syringes for her own use in early 2009, and making false entries in patient and drug records.
The board found that Ms McMahon had a drug addiction which made her unfit to practise nursing.
Mary Carmel Quinn also had her name erased from the nursing register after she failed to comply with conditions imposed on her following an earlier disciplinary hearing in March 2010.
Ms Quinn was struck off after she failed to attend an after-care programme and submit to random urine tests over 12 months.
A former laboratory nurse at the Beacon Hospital in Sandyford, Dublin, was struck off after making repeated defamatory allegations against hospital personnel and gardaí.
The board ruled that Pre-Eminant Ndlovu of Fownes Street, who worked at the Beacon Hospital between June 2008 and March 2011, was guilty of professional misconduct by reason of physical or mental disability.
Two other nurses were struck off after being found guilty of indictable offences — one of theft and fraud, the other for rape.
Anja Pawlak was censured and conditions attached to the retention of her name on the nursing register after she was found to have taken painkillers and other medication for her own use without permission from the nursing home where she worked last year.
Another nurse, Susamma Wilson, was admonished over her professional conduct in relation to her treatment of two hospital patients on September 4, 2009. In one instance, the board found Ms Wilson had hurt a patient when she pushed down on his erect penis despite knowing that he was suffering an involuntary erection.
Anne-Marie Ackerly was also censured in relation to her professional conduct, including a charge that she acted as matron/person-in -charge at a nursing home between November 2007 and February 2008 when she knew she didn’t have the required competence.
Midwife Irene Brennan unsuccessfully appealed against the board’s ruling that she should be advised in relation to her professional conduct after being found guilty of professional misconduct over her treatment of a patient in 2004.
