A NURSE who left an elderly woman with Parkinson’s Disease with a deep cut to her head which required hospital treatment has been suspended for 12 months.

Muhammed Saleem, who worked at White Ash Brook Care Home in Oswaldtwistle, treated the resident with a sticking plaster, a Nursing and Midwifery Council conduct and competence committee hearing was told.

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But when the shift changed, staff found the woman had a “deep laceration”. They alerted paramedics, who took the pensioner to the Royal Blackburn Hospital.

Saleem also got into trouble over his failure to administer an anti-sickness drug to a second resident at the Thwaites Road establishment, following a visit by district nurses.

The resident was found to be suffering from sickness and nausea and he had not received a dose of levomepromazine, which he was prescribed.

Saleem confessed that he did not know, when questioned, what levomepromazine was for. The district nurses drew up the dosage and delivered it themselves, as they did not trust their colleague.

An investigation was undertaken by the home, following a complaint by one of the district nurses, and Saleem was later dismissed.

Six charges against Saleem, three involving the administration of the drug and three concerning the failure to carry out proper observations, or react appropriately in the case of the head wound resident, were found proved by the NMC panel.

Announcing his suspension, panel chairman Lucinda Barnett said: “Both incidents were examples of inaction on the part of Mr Saleem which resulted in lack of care.

“The fact that, following the first incident, two months later, he failed to act appropriately in relation to the second incident, meant that his misconduct amounted to more than a single, isolated lapse on his part.”

An interim suspension of 12 months was imposed on the nurse.