A former theatre nurse who dropped a baby head-first onto a road while drunk has been struck off.
Rachel Lynn had the four-month-old child with her as she went to buy vodka.
According to witnesses, the 38-year-old smelled of alcohol and was slurring her words, the Nursing and Midwifery Council heard.
Lynn, from Balloch, near Inverness, was convicted of wilfully ill-treating a young boy at Inverness Sheriff Court in January.
She was ordered to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work.
She had been convicted of drink-driving at the same court on June 26 last year.
A NMC panel found her fitness to practice impaired and she has been struck off the medical register.
In June last year, she was seen on CCTV wheeling a push chair to a local shop where she bought a half bottle of vodka, among other items.
At about 7pm on the same day, a married couple saw Lynn drop the baby on the road surface. He suffered a four inch fracture to the left side of the skull. He was discharged a few days later.
Derek Zeitlin, for the NMC, said: “Ms Lynn continues to pose a risk of significant harm to herself and others should she not manage her health condition.”
The panel agreed that it would be in the public interest for Lynn to be removed from the profession.
NMC panel chairman Tim Mann said: “The behaviour that led to these convictions has not been curtailed and it considered that there was a pattern of behaviour which increased the risk of repetition.
“Due to the seriousness of the convictions in this case and the lack of appropriate insight, the only appropriate and proportionate sanction to impose would be a striking-off order.”
Lynn, who was not present at the hearing, has been removed from the medical register.
