Posted on 10/17/2014 4:47:55 PM PDT by Morgana
nurse joked about throwing a severely ill baby suffering from cerebral palsy out of the window, a hearing was told.
Louise Hull admitted losing her temper with the tot when it repeatedly pulled its blood saturation monitor and feeding tube off.
During the incident at Southend University Hospital, Essex, on May 27, 2010, she said: ‘If you don’t stop pulling your tubes out and if these bloody alarms keep going off I’m going to have to throw you out the window.’
On another occasion when talking about premature babies, she said: ‘It would be alright if these babies had some quality of life but they don’t.’
When a 10-year-old boy was admitted to the ward with severe stomach pain on 8 June, 2010, Hull said: ‘If the doctor takes your appendix out and it’s normal then you owe me two kisses and it has to be tongues.’
The Nursing and Midwifery Council heard she also told the youngster to ‘do as you’re told’, adding: ‘They might take something else out as well’.
Hull is also accused of breaching professional boundaries by handing her mobile phone number to a patient’s father and making personal visits to a discharged patient.
Marcia Persaud, for the NMC, said: ‘It’s alleged that the registrant provided a mobile phone to the father of a patient on the ward, and that was on an unknown date in January 2007.
‘The registrant’s telephone went off in the staff room and she told another member of staff she’s received a text message from the father of a patient that recently been transferred to another hospital.
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Ha...Ha.
“Call the Midwife”
Everything she said? If people are in a tense situation, they sometimes think things like that. It's fairly human. But you don't SAY these things. You're supposed to know better.
Perhaps this one really should work for planned parenthood.
This is the first time I’ve heard about it. I knew nothing about it until I read it in the paper. I’m outraged, and I won’t rest until... uh... I... uh... help me out here... what were we talking about?
Many Psychos tend to enter the medical field to scope out easy victims.
‘Course I was only seven. And he didn't have cerebral palsy...just colicky I suspect. Cried and cried and cried. (Come to think of it he still does...and he is in his 50s.)
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