Nurse who demonstrated 'woefully substandard' skills censured by High Court

A staff nurse who demonstrated what the High Court described as "woefully substandard" nursing skills, including failure to respond to an anaesthetist's query whether or not a patient was breathing, has been censured with conditions on his registration should he seek to resume work here.

The president of the High Court, Mr Justice Peter Kelly, said it was "astonishing", given the findings against Richard Amoako, that he had obtained the necessary certificate to practise nursing in Europe from authorities in Finland.