Welsh Nurse Struck Off For Thieving, UK

A conduct hearing held in Cardiff last week ordered a 36 year-old nurse from Wales be struck off the register for stealing medication from a vulnerable patient. An independent panel of the Nursing & Midwifery Council last week heard that Sarah Louise Cole was working in the Burns & Plastics Unit at Morriston Hopsital in Swansea in June 2004 when she purposefully suggested the need of medication for a patient so she could steal it. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Medical Malpractice / Litigation on December 29th, 2007