baby patient a ‘fat b******’ while branding a new mum a ‘scummy junkie’ has been rapped by a watchdog. Karen Edith Cunningham was working in the neonatal intensive care unit at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee when she made the slew of horrendous remarks in 2018.
The nurse, who had 30 years experience, was also found to have made errors when administering medication to youngsters in her care on at least three occasions.
Cunningham, who admitted all the charges against her, also deliberately ignored monitor alarms for baby patients while leaving student staff members to deal with them.The Nursing and Midwifery Council was told how Cunningham had become “disengaged'', “disinterested” and “didn’t care” about her job which led to her shocking.
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