Care home nurse struck off for declaring
resident dead before he actually died
A Wirral care home nurse who pronounced
an elderly patient dead before he
actually died has been struck off.
Cheryl Marshall, who worked at Benham Nursing
and Residential Home in Bromborough , gave up trying to do CPR and wrongly declared
the resident dead, a misconduct panel heard.
Paramedics later found a pulse in the patient
and took him to hospital where he died some hours later.
Marshall has now been struck off after the
tribunal ruled she showed a “lack of basic nursing skills”.
Her shocking blunder came after colleagues found
the resident, a Parkinson’s disease sufferer, unresponsive in the lounge after
eating.
Marshall told healthcare assistants to put him
in a wheelchair and take him to his bedroom.
They objected and said he should be given CPR
straight away, but Marshall ordered them to take him to his room.
It took up to five minutes to find a wheelchair
to move the patient.
Nursing misconduct hearings
When in his bedroom Marshall did CPR at a rate
of five chest compressions per two breaths, when the proper ratio should be 15
to 30 compressions followed by two breaths.
One of her colleagues later took over the CPR
but was asked to stop by Marshall who said the patient was already dead.
She did not check vital signs or do a blood
pressure reading to confirm this.
Paramedics arrived and discovered the patient
had actually choked on a piece of ham. He was made stable and moved to hospital
where he later died.
An inquest ruled the resident died of accidental
choking and found the way the CPR was carried out did not contribute to his
death.
Marshall resigned from her job at Benham Nursing
and Residential Home after the death in July 2014 and now has a new job in
healthcare.
Banning her from ever working as a nurse again,
the Nursing and Midwifery Council said: “Miss Marshall’s failings were
significant departures from the standards expected of a registered nurse and
are fundamentally incompatible with remaining on the register.”
Benham Nursing and Residential Home made
headlines last year when it was rated “inadequate”
by the Care Quality Commission . It has
since closed.
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