A Dundee nurse accused of sleeping on the job and ignoring residents’ calls for assistance will face a disciplinary hearing later this month.
Comfort Aramide Temisanren is also accused of roughly handling a resident and turning off lights needed for safety at the Linlathen Neurodisability Centre on Arbroath Road.
The nurse faces a number of charges alleged to have taken place while working as a registered nurse at the centre in October 2011.
The charges state that during her shifts, on one or more occasions, she slept while on duty, turned off lights in the centre which were required to ensure the safety of residents and failed to respond promptly, or at all, to the residents’ use of buzzers to request assistance.
Ms Temisanren is also accused of failing to carry out and/or assist her colleagues with required personal care, position change and/or bedrail checks of residents.
It is also alleged that the nurse instructed or encouraged other staff to not respond to the residents’ buzzers and not carry out the required personal care and position change checks of residents.
Ms Temisanren faces a charge that on or around October 22, 2011 in respect of an unknown resident who had fallen, she failed to check the resident and did not assist colleagues in lifting the resident.
It is also alleged that Ms Temisanren roughly handled Resident A when moving her on or around October 23 and that her fitness to practise was impaired by reason of her misconduct.
The charges will be considered during a Nursing and Midwifery Council conduct and competence committee hearing in Edinburgh starting on September 23.
The Linlathen Neurodisability Centre provides care for adults with physical and learning disabilities, with a separate unit providing care for adults with Huntington’s Disease and mild challenging behaviour.
A Care Inspectorate report on the centre in April this year rated its quality of care and support as “good” and its quality of staffing as “adequate”.