Each month, Nursing Times will consider a real-life case heard by the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s fitness to practise panel. We’ll give you the facts of the case, as presented to the panel, and you’ll get a chance to consider what decision you would have made.
You’re the panel
Each month, Nursing Times will consider a real-life case heard by the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s fitness to practise panel. We’ll give you the facts of the case, as presented to the panel, and you’ll get a chance to consider what decision you would have made
You're the panel
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A nurse faced the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s fitness to practise panel after concerns were raised about their delivery of care.
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A nurse working in a care home was found to have poor knowledge and command of the English language, which affected their clinical skills and fell below the NMC’s minimum requirements.
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A nurse working in a care home was accused of failing to provide medication to residents several times.
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A nurse faced the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s fitness-to-practise panel after receiving a conviction for the theft of fentanyl from their employer’s pharmacy.
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A nurse working at a care home failed to manage a resident’s epileptic seizure appropriately with rescue medication, which led to them facing the fitness-to-practise panel.
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A nurse faced the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s fitness-to-practise panel after concerns were raised about how they provided medications to a patient.
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A nurse working at a nursing home faced the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s fitness-to-practise panel after two residents were not given their correct prescriptions of medication on several occasions.
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A nurse moved a vulnerable patient in an inappropriate manner while using an inappropriate handling technique, leading to them facing the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s fitness-to-practise panel.
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A care home nurse used inappropriate physical force to move a resident in the home and left them isolated, resulting in a fitness-to-practise hearing.
You're the panel: Decisions and reasons
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Find out how the NMC panel acted in this case. Not yet read the case? Read the charge and background here
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Find out how the NMC panel acted in this case. Not yet read the case? Read the charge and background here
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Find out how the NMC panel acted in this case. Not yet read the case? Read the charge and background here
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Final panel decision: What should happen to a nurse who failed to administer and record medications?
Find out how the NMC panel acted in this case. Not yet read the case? Read the charge and background here
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Find out how the NMC panel acted in this case. Not yet read the case? Read the charge and background here
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Find out how the NMC panel acted in this case. Not yet read the case? Read the charge and background here.
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Find out how the NMC panel acted in this case. Not yet read the case? Read the charge and background here.
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Find out how the NMC panel acted in this case. Not yet read the case? Read the charge and background here.
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Find out how the NMC panel acted in this case. Not yet read the case? Read the charge and background here.
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Find out how the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s panel acted in this case. Not yet read the case? Read the charge and background here.