Two nurses have been found guilty of misconduct for failures in looking after residents at a Dundee care home.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council have ruled that Helen Hart Scroggie and Emily Murray McKay brought the profession into disrepute for their actions at Ballumbie Court Care Home.
Their cases resulted from an audit of the files of 60 residents at the home at the end of 2009, when it was discovered that operational changes were not being implemented. There were also discrepancies with the quantities of medicines signed for and administered.
At the end of a four-day hearing of the NMC’s conduct and competence committee in Edinburgh, a number of charges against Scroggie and McKay were found proven.
Barry Dooley for the NMC said the nurses’ failures to re-order medication resulted in residents being placed at increased risk of pain.
The failures to look after the wounds of residents and record weight affected the residents’ health and safety.
He continued: “Each resident identified in the charges as found proved was vulnerable and elderly with mental health issues.”
Scroggie, a staff nurse, and McKay, charge nurse, were suspended after the allegations came to light and each resigned from their posts at Ballumbie in January 2010.
Scroggie had indicated she was suffering from health problems at the time and she retired from all work.
McKay had admitted her failures and had been under stress at the time of the incidents. She had gone to work in another Dundee care home but had chosen not to work in a charge nurse post.
The linked hearing was adjourned until April 19 for a decision to be issued.