Advertisement Four nurses have been found guilty of professional misconduct after a vulnerable Indigenous man, who took his own life in a mental health ward, was recorded in observations as âsleepingâ because the nurses did not enter the room to check on him. The man, given the pseudonym Patient A, took his life in a Sydney hospital some time during the night of May 26, 2017, after he voluntarily admitted himself because he had spoken to his GP about suicidal ideation. The 49-year-old, who lived in his car, had already tried to take his life multiple times that year. After several days at the hospital, he was detained as an involuntary patient in the Acute Mental Health Unit when he said he âhad nothing leftâ and âwould not be here in a weekâ. On May 26, he was noted to be in a state of âsevere agitationâ.