Nurses’ ‘Fixation’ on Equipment Largely to Blame for Toddler’s Death
Nurses’ errors were found during an inquest to be largely to blame for the death of a 3-year old boy Aidan Mara.
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Elizabeth Wettlaufer Serial Murders: Did the System Fail the Patients?
Wettlaufer was found guilty of 8 counts of murder, 4 counts of attempted murder and 2 cases of aggravated assault against elderly patients by injecting them with insulin.
SA Nursing Council Launches Anonymous Hotline for Reporting Nurses
An independent hotline to report unethical behavior by nurses was launched last month by the South African Nursing Council (SANC), the country’s regulating body for nurses.
Surgeon and Nurse Dances While Performing Surgery
A doctor and nurse that were captured on camera laughing and dancing to pop music while doing surgery.
Nurse Struck Off After Failing to Provide Resuscitation
Doreen Ellam, a Warrington Hospital nurse, was struck off after she failed to give resuscitation to her patient, gave paracetamol to an allergic patient, and was implicated in many other cases of negligence and misconduct.