Princess Royal Hospital nurse had to be told to clean her hands
A hospital nurse admitted having to be asked to properly clean her hands before giving eye drops and not administering drugs properly.
Kerry Louise Sankey admitted a number of misconducted charges related to her time working as a registered nurse at the Princess Royal Hospital between 2012 to 2015.
They included not administering drugs to patients, signing forms to say drugs had been administered when they hadn’t, not checking that observations on patients by colleagues were satisfactory, not checking on the condition of patients.
Charges admitted by Sankey also included needing to be prompted to decontaminate hands when administering eye drops to an unknown patient and signing forms to say that a certain drug had been given to a patient when it was actually a type of medication.
Sankey faced a misconduct hearing by the Nursing and Midwifery Council at its headquarters in Stratford Place in Montfichet Road, London. The hearing ran on October 30 and 31 and from November 1 to 3.
A report following the hearing said: “The charges in this case relate to your employment as a Band 5 Registered Nurse at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust during which time you worked on Ward 4, previously called Ward 7, located at the Princess Royal Hospital
“The charges relate to your work between 2012 and 2015 and span a number of issues including poor medicines management, poor record keeping, not recognising deteriorating patients, inappropriate assessment in relation to pressure areas, not taking or recording observations appropriately, not complying with infection control procedures, inappropriate delegation and not providing assistance to patients and or colleagues.”
The report says: “The panel considered all of the charges within each of these areas individually and was of the view that none of these charges taken individually were so serious as to meet the threshold for misconduct. The panel then considered whether the charges taken cumulatively were sufficiently serious to amount to misconduct. The panel found that your actions did fall seriously short and amounted to misconduct.”
The panel ruled that the fitness to practice was impaired and ordered a conditions of practice order for two years.
Deirdre Fowler, director of nursing, midwifery and quality said: “Kerry Sankey is no longer employed at SaTH.”
