€22k for care assistant who left man nude in nursing home

The owners of a Cork nursing home have been ordered to pay €22,000 to a health care assistant who was dismissed for leaving an elderly patient undressed on a bed.

A senior staff nurse (SSN) told an employment appeals tribunal a similar incident had occurred a week earlier.

On May 6, 2014, the SSN saw an elderly man sitting on his bed, fully undressed. The curtain was not pulled and the door to the corridor was open.