Nurse put tape over patient’s mouth

A nurse who put surgical tape over a severely brain damaged patient admitted yesterday that his action amounted to professional misconduct.

It is also alleged that Bimbo Paden, a Filipino nurse at St John’s Community Hospital in Sligo, placed a sling under the patient on June 26 last year without the assistance of a colleague.

It is the first fitness to practise hearing for a nurse to be heard in public at the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland.