Nurse at Limerick care home failed to assess resident who went untreated for broken hip

Fitness to practise inquiry heard the nurse at care unit for people with intellectual disabilities had also not informed the resident’s family, his GP and his occupational therapist as well as her own managers about the incident, in which the resident fell while going to the toilet

Resident, who has Down syndrome, was untreated for six days after he fell and broke his hip, inquiry heard. File picture

A senior nurse has appeared before a fitness-to-practise inquiry over her failure to properly assess a resident of a care home who had fallen in a bathroom, which meant he went six days untreated with a broken hip.

The inquiry heard the nurse, Patricia Lloyd, had also not informed the resident’s family, his GP and his occupational therapist as well as her own managers about the incident, in which he fell while going to the toilet.