A Dundee social care worker has been sanctioned after committing a series of medication blunders while working at a city care home.
Shirley Marr failed to administer prescribed drugs correctly to residents over a 15-month period at the Craigie House home on Southampton Road.
The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC), the industry’s regulator, found Ms Marr’s fitness to practise to be impaired because of her “deficient professional practice”.
Between December 2015 and March 2017, on several occasions, Ms Marr did not administer medication to residents, failed to fill out medication log forms and left medication unattended within reach of patients.
The SSSC said: “Service users have the right to expect that the care and support they receive from social service workers, in whom they place their trust and confidence, will protect them from harm.
“By failing to administer medication to residents or record that medication had been administered, disposing of medication and preparing medication in a way which had not been authorised by relevant medical professionals, you breached the trust and confidence placed in you, while placing residents at risk of harm.
“Your behaviour amounted to a failure in your duty of care, in that residents may have received medication in a manner which was not appropriate for them, and it would be unclear what medication residents had received, placing them at risk of harm through over or under medication.”
The SSSC ordered Ms Marr to pass an SVQ administration of medication module and write a reflective account of the dangers of her behaviour.