A NURSE has been suspended for a year from her profession for a string of failings in the care of patients.

Valerie Jackson, from Blackburn, was found to have incorrectly recorded that a patient did not have an aortic aneurysm when he did.

She also wrongly recorded that the patient had a history of renal colic when he did not, a panel of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) found.

Mrs Jackson, who now works for Blackburn with Darwen Council as a Shared Lives Carer in her own home, was also found to have failed to sufficiently probe a person regarding a patient’s peripheral cyanosis and failed to take into account the patient’s condition when determining what treatment the patient needed.

The incidents happened in March 2015 while she was working as a 111 senior clinical advisor at North West Ambulance Service.

Separately, while working as a nurse at Royal Preston Hospital in July 2015, she failed to administer or attempt to administer medication to four patients.

While in November 2015, she was also found to have administered two doses of medication to a patient between 1.45pm and 2pm, when it was prescribed two to four hourly, and failed to document the second administration on the patient’s chart.

Following the incidents, a panel of the NMC decided to impose conditions on Mrs Jackson’s registration. They are now due to expire and a panel of the NMC has decided to suspend Mrs Jackson for 12 months.

The NMC said in a report: “While Mrs Jackson was subject to her current conditions of practice order, further clinical errors have occurred.

“Furthermore, Mrs Jackson has indicated that she has decided that she is no longer able to work as a nurse and has obtained further employment.”