A nurse at scandal-hit Stafford Hospital
escaped being struck off yesterday after she claimed that a dead patient was
sleeping.
Evelyn Agbeko had found the 81-year-old
woman unresponsive.
However, she did not try chest
compressions or call the hospital’s resuscitation team, the Nursing and
Midwifery Council heard.
Agbeko wrote in her notes that the patient
was asleep between 4am and 6am, but she died at 3am.
The panel heard Agbeko failed to provide
“basic life support” and that her actions “fell seriously short of the conduct
expected of a nurse”.
But the regulator ruled she could continue
working as a nurse if she completed a course in basic life support within six
months.
