A former care home boss who was suspended following the death of a resident faces being struck off the nursing register.
Pamela Tavendale was given an 18-month ban while health chiefs investigate her time as manager of the Mowat Court care home at Stonehaven between January and October 2012.
The family of Gladys Burr claim she was illegally restrained and needlessly drugged during that time and the way she was treated accelerated her death.
Eleven complaints against the ho,e – including a claim that the 89-year-old had been left in a daze by an unnecessary cocktail of pills – were upheld following an investigation by the Care Inspectorate.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council will now decide wether she will be allowed to continue to practise at a hearing next month.
Mrs Burr died in February 2012 – just four months after moving to Mowat Court.
Among the allegations against Ms Tavendale are that staff had been permitted to inappropriately restrain Mrs Burr, did not treat her with respect and failed to manage concerns and complaints raised by relatives.
Ms Tavendale is further accused of having behaved in an ‘unsympathetic’ manner towards one of Mrs Burr’s relatives.
It is alleged upon the relative attending the home following her mother’s death, she said “well that’s that, what’s next?” and having attended the home following the Mrs Burr’s funeral, said: “I don’t know what you’re doing here, your mum’s dead and gone.”
Ms Taveldale is also accused of failing to adequately review accident and incident reports in relation to another patient, known as Resident B, and ensure that remedial action was taken.
She will appear before the Nursing and Midwifery Council in August.
Another former boss, Ian Anderson, was sacked from his post early at the care home by owners Care UK in 2012.
He was told by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) that he did not do enough to take care of “vulnerable residents”.
Last October, he asked for his name to be removed from the Nursing and Midwifery register.