A clinical nurse manager in Dublin is facing an inquiry by the Nursing and Midwifery Board for allegedly failing to call an ambulance for a patient who ingested cleaning fluid at a psychiatric hospital. The nurse, Ann Marie Ryan, reportedly instructed junior staff not to call for an ambulance or file an incident report. The patient died days later after being transferred to an acute hospital.
A clinical nurse manager failed to call an ambulance for a patient who had swallowed cleaning fluid at a Dublin hospital, aThe inquiry also heard clinical nurse manager Ann Marie Ryan instructed junior staff not to call an ambulance and not to write up an incident report.
The Board’s Fitness to Practise Committee opened its inquiry on Monday at which it was ordered neither the patient’s name, nor that of the hospital nor Ms Ryan’s contact details may be disclosed by the media. Nurse Wilkins said she concluded the patient had drunk the fluid and she contacted the most senior member of staff on duty who was the clinical nurse manager Ms Ryan. “I was quite panicked. I informed Ms Ryan and said I was calling the ambulance,” she said.
A second nurse, Dumsile Bhende, said she too had wanted to call an ambulance but had been told by Ms Ryan to monitor the patient and give her fluids. Ms Bhende said she suggested calling a GP who arrived and immediately instructed an ambulance be called.
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