A nurse must be supervised for a year following incidents at a care home in East Perthshire.
Avril Mcerlain was handed a conditions of practice order by the conduct and competence committee of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) after admitting two charges against her, and having a further three proved.
Mcerlain, who was not represented, was sacked from Beech Manor care home in Blairgowrie following the incidents.
She worked for another care firm for nine months but has not worked since 2013.
She acknowledged that she cut an elderly patient’s nails on May 15 2012 but failed to record it in the woman’s notes; and that on May 27 the same year she asked a healthcare assistant to give medicine to a patient.
Mcerlain denied that on May 15 2012 she failed to record a woman’s fall on either an accident form or the woman’s notes, and that she failed to tell the patient’s family she had fallen.
The panel was told the pensioner took a tumble while showering at around 7pm.
The woman complained of pain in her arm but a broken bone was not discovered until the next day, when the deputy manager at the home called a doctor and the woman was taken to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee.
Mcerlain admitted to the panel that she had not filled out an accident form because she was unable to find one and said that she had intended to do so on her next shift.
She said she did not contact the woman’s family as she did not believe the resident had been seriously injured in the incident but she accepted that it should have been recorded in the patient’s notes.
The panel decided that Mcerlain’s actions amounted to misconduct but noted that she showed “insight and remorse” regarding the incident and imposed a conditions of practice order.
Panel chairwoman Anne Asher said the order would allow sufficient time for Mcerlain to resolve the identified deficiencies in her practice.