Having difficulty dealing with a heavy workload on a day when the nursing unit had numerous visitors, the grievor placed one particularly unruly patient in a room where he could not be observed. Her offence was foundto be an error in judgment, but not patient abuse.
A nurse was fired after she temporarily removed a demented and wheelchair-bound patient who was acting out from a busy hallway into a room housing a waste disposal unit. The employer said the nurse’s actions were an affront to the dignity of a vulnerable patient and a violation of professional standards of care.
