An Angus nurse working with older people is accused of altering a colleague’s medication record to hide his own mistakes.
Iain Burns will face a Nursing and Midwifery Council hearing over his fitness to practise following alleged misconduct at Lochbank Manor Care Home in Forfar.
Mr Burns is alleged to have altered a dose of a resident’s Prednisolone medication without permission, amended their patient chart without permission, and dishonestly amended a colleague’s notes about the patient.
Prednisolone is a medicine used in treating inflammatory and allergic disorders, and Bell’s Palsy.
The hearing in Edinburgh is expected to begin on August 10 and last two days.
The full charges are that Mr Burns did not obtain written confirmation of a doctor’s verbal instruction to alter the dose on December 10 2013, or have a witness to such; transcribed Resident A’s amended Prednisolone medication on or before December 28 without getting a colleague to check and countersign it, or signed it himself, and did not record a start or end date for the new dose.
He is alleged to have asked Colleague B on December 30 to amend her entry on Resident A’s MAR chart to indicate that she had given 3mg of Prednisolone two days earlier, when she had not; and crossed out Colleague B’s initials that related to the administration of 2mg Prednisolone to Resident A on December 28, replacing it with the word “error”.
In June this year, the Graham Crescent home was warned to tighten up its infection control procedures by inspectors.
Qualities of care and support, environment, staffing, and management and leadership were all graded as “adequate” after a March 20 inspection.
But inspectors found the home had no sluice facility to clean bedpans and the laundry facilities were “inadequate”.
They found a recent staff shortage had been solved, and the management team was “committed” to improving the service.
Lochbank Manor, which is now for sale through Christie’s as a freehold for £1.6 million, cares for a maximum of 40 older people, providing 24-hour residential and nursing care.
The provider of the service is RDS Healthcare, which has a small number of similar services in the north of Scotland.
RDS Healthcare could not be reached for comment.