Nurse censured for borrowing €200 from patient

A nurse has been found guilty of professional misconduct by the nursing board, An Bord Altranais, after she struck up a conversation about her financial problems with a patient and ended up borrowing €200 from her.

Carina Girona Padua DeGuzman was a staff nurse in an undisclosed Irish hospital when, in Feb 2010, she engaged in a conversation with a female patient about her “personal circumstances”.

This conversation took place when the woman was in hospital but Ms Padua DeGuzman then acquired her former patient’s address and visited her at her home later that month.