Nurse found guilty of assaulting coworker with dirty diaper

WREG ^ | April 8, 2026 | Vivian Nguyen

[Morgana]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Tennessee nurse was found guilty of smearing an adult diaper filled with urine and feces across her coworker’s face, according to the Office of the District Attorney General Frederick H. Agee of the 28th Judicial District.

On Monday, Sharandal Mitchell, 40, was found guilty of Assault – Offensive Contact. Mitchell will be sentenced in May.

District Attorney General Agee said that on March 30, 2024, Mitchell was working as a Licensed Practical Nurse at a nursing home in Medina, Tenn.

Mitchell was reported by a coworker for refusing to provide care for a patient experiencing a prolonged nosebleed and for failing to administer prescribed medications to patients under her care, Agee said.

[Morgana]

I know it's a few weeks old but just found out about it.

So like teachers is our health care system hiring the bottom of the barrel now?

[dforest]

Man, that would really piss me of if someone did sh_t like this to me.

[PGR88]

So like teachers is our health care system hiring the bottom of the barrel now?

Most definitely. My mom went into a county-run "rehab" home after having a debilitating stroke. It was a disaster, even though the place was <2 years old - smelled like pee, lazy nurses, a lot of foreign nurses, loud/crazy people roaming the halls at all hours, mom got bedsores, etc...

We got her out of there ASAP.

[Morgana]

I don’t understand why this was not a felony.

[kawhill]

“MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Tennessee nurse was found guilty of smearing an adult diaper filled with urine and feces across her coworker’s face, according to the Office of the District Attorney General Frederick H. Agee of the 28th Judicial District.” The most unusual story I’ve read today.

[dforest]

Me neither. It is a gross felony to me. Yuck.

[econjack]

No need to look...

[Chesterbelloc]

How does that old saying go? Something like, “Don’t bring a knife to a dirty diaper fight.”

[Tell It Right]

Wow! I violated FR protocol and read the article. She did this to her coworker AFTER the police were already there. She was being told to leave for refusing care to a patient. And the leave process, if I understand it correctly, included taking a moment to count her medications (apparently it's a check-in, check-out process similar to a cashier counting her drawer at the end of a shift). But she took so long to do that, obviously stalling, that the police were called to get her out.

It was at that point that she went into a patient's room and got a soiled diaper to smear onto her coworker's face. I guess because it was obvious that her career was over and she felt she had nothing to lose.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Sharandal Mitchell From Rivendell?

[Albion Wilde]

What a surprise.

[UnwashedPeasant]

"Nurse found guilty of assaulting coworker with dirty diaper"

The coworker had a dirty diaper?

[Pol-92064]

Maybe she took a plea deal. Anyway that LPN will lose her nurse license and she can start working as a house keeper or gas station attendant.

[No name given]

It’s them again, Yogi.

[No name given]

Not really.

[packrat35]

Was she black? If so, thats why

[Tennessee Nana]

Oh yes the name …..

[Liz]

[Responsibility2nd]

“Shut up Boo Boo. You know it’s them”.

[Flaming Conservative]

The quality of licensed practical nurses depends on the State. Some States have very lax requirements.