Nurse Struck Off For Denying Burns Patient Pain Relief, UK

A 65 year old registered adult nurse from Chelmsford, Essex has been struck off the register for failing to administer a prescribed controlled drug. Comfort Ominiyi Jegede was a D Grade Staff Nurse on the Burns Rehabilitation Unit at Broomfield Hospital, Essex when in March 2005 she failed to administer MST, a morphine sulphate when scheduled to do so.

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Filed under: Medical Malpractice / Litigation on January 29th, 2008