Dirty Operating Equipment Gets Nurse Struck Off, UK

A 56 year old nurse from Plymouth who allowed unsterilized operating equipment to be used in surgery has been struck off the register following a hearing by the independent panel of the Conduct and Competence Committee for the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC). Petronella Oberholzer was a registered nurse at the Plymouth Peninsula NHS Treatment Centre in June 2006 when she failed to check that the operating equipment was sterilised prior to a patient’s surgery.

More: continued here

Filed under: Medical Malpractice / Litigation on May 22nd, 2008