Stressed nurse put tape over patient’s mouth

A judge found that a male nurse who put surgical tape on a patient’s mouth was overworked and under serious stress with inadequate management support in a HSE hospital.

The judge found Bimbo Paden worked in “inequitable, unreasonable and unsafe” conditions.

Judge Kevin Kilrane was preparing to sentence Paden, aged 39, for assault on Kevin Quinn, a patient in St John’s long-term care hospital in Sligo.