Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Rose Wall today released a report finding an enrolled nurse in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for failures in the care of an elderly man at a rest home. The .
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The nurse failed to perform adequate checks on the patient during the night, an investigation found. (File photo)
A nurse’s failure to perform proper nightly checks on a patient with schizophrenia who later died added up to a “severe departure” from the accepted level of care, an investigation has found. A report recently released by the Health and Disability Commissioner found a registered nurse in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights for his failures in providing care to a male patient at a mental health facility. The patient, referred to as Mr A, was in his 20s at the time of the incident and had a “long-standing” history of mental health issues, including paranoid schizophrenia and psychosis following cannabis and synthetic drug use.
Monday, 22 February 2021, 2:00 pm
Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Kevin Allan
today released a report finding a registered nurse in breach
of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’
Rights (the Code) for failures in the care of a man at a
residential mental health facility.
The nurse was
rostered to work an overnight shift, from 11pm until 7am the
following morning. As part of his overnight duties, he was
to perform three site checks to ensure that residents were
on site during the night.
The nurse performed the
three site checks at 12.00am, 3.00am, and 6.00am. During the
3.00am check, the nurse performed the check by looking
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