A pair of Dundee nurses are facing charges misconduct after being accused of failing to correctly medicate patients with diabetes and falsifying records.
Charges against Jonathan Michael Brown and Donna Jane Richardson, former nurses at Ninewells Hospital, are to be considered at hearings by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) next month.
It is alleged that while employed as a staff nurse at the hospital Jonathan Brown committed misconduct by failing to correctly record a patient’s early warning score and ‘demonstrated inadequate diabetes care’ during a shift in May 2013.
It is further alleged he falsified a patient’s records by noting that insulin was withheld by ‘medical team instructions’ when it was in fact the patient’s daughter who asked him not to administer the dose. The charges also alleged a lack of competence during a period of supervised practice between September and December 2013.
In total he faces nine charges of incompetence and misconduct bringing into doubt his fitness to practice.
In a separate case Donna Richardson is accused of misconduct by failing to provide appropriate care to patients by failing to record she had administered intravenous fluids to a patient and not taking any action after patients’ blood sugar tests.
It is also alleged Richardson failed to correctly record early warning scores on more than one occasion and failed to notify the family of a deterioration in one patient in her care during a night shift of May 5 to 6, 2013.
She is also accused of dishonestly backdating an entry into a patient’s records.
Another allegation is that she gave a double dose of a morphine-based painkiller to one patient and failed to administer medicine to another in November and December 2013.
She faces a total of eight charges alleging that her fitness to practice was impaired by misconduct.
Hearings into both cases will be heard before the NMC in Edinburgh from June 1 to 9.