News / Nurse’s misconduct hearing
A NURSE accused of behaving in an “aggressive” and “intimidating” way towards two vulnerable patients in Shetland is facing a misconduct hearing.
The incident is alleged to have happened when Giak Siau Abernethy was working at Lerwick’s Gilbert Bain Hospital on 5 September 2014.
She also faces further allegations that, on the same date over 18 months ago, she authorised a patient to self-mediate when it was “not clinically justified”, destroyed a patient’s self-medication record.
On 3 November that year, meanwhile, Abernethy is charged with incorrectly setting a patient’s intravenous fluids at double the agreed level – resulting in 500ml of fluid being administered over six hours instead of the prescribed 12 hours.
She faces a hearing with the Nursing and Midwifery Council next month.
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