Night nurse accused of sleeping on duty in Hove

4:30pm Tuesday 8th January 2013 in News

A nurse accused of falling asleep on the job is appearing  before a disciplinary panel.

Karen Stirman is said to have been found sleeping while in charge of the night shift at around 11.15pm on May 24, 2010.

The deputy matron is also said to have failed to provide patients at Victoria Nursing Home in Hove with the right medication.

She is accused of failing to turn one resident properly, failing to administer or record the right tablets and failing |to ensure a call bell was |within reach for two other residents.

She will appear at a Nursing and Midwifery Council hearing in London.

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Comments(3)

keswick says...
7:19pm Tue 8 Jan 13

Don't talk to me about staff in nursing homes. The one where I have current experience of should not even call themselves human beings.

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Mel@cityclean says...
8:48pm Tue 8 Jan 13

I worked five years in Nursing home. And all the night staff, went to sleep when the residents where sleeping! You are paid to work, and have all day to sleep. Hope she does not win, her case. She had a duty of care, to look after the people she had been trusted to. Lazy women sleeping on the job!!

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Maxwell's Ghost says...
8:59pm Tue 8 Jan 13

While this is totally unacceptable, I worked night shifts for a while and I was shocked at the number of women with babies and young toddlers who would doze on the sofa at home in the day looking after the kids and then go to work at night full time when their partners came home from work.
I worked with one lady who would average two hours sleep a day just so she and her partner could pay the rent.

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