A Shetland nurse is to face a hearing later this month accused of “aggressive” and “intimidating” behaviour towards vulnerable patients.
Giak Siau Abernethy will appear before the Nursing and Midwifery Council next month to face four charges.
They relate to her work as a staff nurse for NHS Shetland’s Gilbert Bain Hospital in Lerwick.
She is accused of conducting herself in an “aggressive, accusatory and intimidating” manner towards two vulnerable patients at the hospital on September 5, 2014.
The same day she is accused of authorising a patient to self-medicate when it was not clinically justified.
And on or after September 5, 2014 she is alleged to have destroyed a patient’s self medication record.
Ms Abernethy faces a further charge of incorrectly setting a patient’s IV fluids so that 500ml of fluids were administered over six hours instead of the prescribed 12 hours.
This final charge is alleged to have happened on November 3, 2014.
The band five nurse will appear before a Nursing and Midwifery Council panel in Edinburgh on May 9.
Northern nurse facing watchdog over “aggressive” behaviour towards patients
