WHISTLEBLOWERS CLAIM NURSE SLEPT ON JOB
A NURSE faces being struck off for allegedly disabling patient’s alarms so she could sleep on the job.
Anne Facchini, 54, resigned amid allegations she disconnected emergency monitors of two disabled elderly patients in separate Ayrshire private care homes.
Her former colleagues yesterday told a hearing that one wheelchair reliant resident was forced to wet the bed as a result leaving them “distressed, upset and humiliated”.
If found guilty of misconduct Mrs Facchini will lose her current job as a midwife in the maternity unit at the NHS run Crosshouse Hospital at Kilmarnock.
Mrs Facchini did admit failing to provide a woman with a commode at the Glenfairn Nursing Home in Ayr on August 17, 2007.
But she denied disconnecting the woman’s alarm.
She also denied claims that just a week earlier she fell asleep for one and a half hours while at her other job working at Suncourt Nursing Home in Troon.
Abridged
SOURCE: Deadline Press & Picture Agency - Edinburgh,Lothian,UK
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