A NURSE has been struck off after “showing no signs of remorse” for placing a boot on a patient’s wound.

East Sussex nurse Marta Franica has been told she is no longer fit to practice after a slew of failures.

Ms Franica admitted to a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Fitness to Practise Committee that she dressed and placed a boot on a patient’s wound on September 15, 2015.

Then, when handing the patient over to another healthcare professional, said the wound was on the right foot when, in fact, it had been on the left.

She also told the healthcare professional the patient was another person.

Ms Franica faced the NMC previously where she was told to make amends for her actions.

However, a NMC committee which met on October 7, said: “The panel noted that the original panel found that Ms Franica had developing insight.

“It would appear that Ms Franica has disengaged from the NMC process.

“For these reasons, the panel could only conclude that Ms Franica’s insight has decreased.

“Ms Franica has failed to provide a reflective piece addressing the areas that the previous reviewing panel considered would be useful and has also shown no signs of remorse for her actions.”

The panel noted the 2015 misconduct amounted to “one incident” and that there were a “number of mitigating factors” that the original panel took into account.

However, Ms Franica is no longer engaging with the NMC and she has not provided “any evidence that she had attempted to remediate her failings”.

The report said: “The panel determined that it was necessary to take action to prevent Ms Franica from practising in the future and concluded that the only sanction that would adequately protect the public was a striking-off order.” The striking-off order will take effect on November 22 and the decision will be confirmed to Ms Franica in writing.

The NMC serves to protect the public and uphold standards within nursing and midwifery.

Last year, a “naughty” nurse who filmed herself taking “yummy” stolen medicines and inhaling laughing gas while on duty was struck-off by the council. Helen Smithson, who worked in A&E at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, also filmed a “semi-naked” nurse colleague sitting on a hospital bed, took Temazepam and failed to report a stolen syringe of morphine. In one video she filmed herself taking the opiate oxycodone, describing the experience as “yummy – so naughty”.