Jean Ndubeze, a Nigerian nurse working in the United Kingdom is being accused of making numerous blunders while working at Hackney’s Homerton Hospital in east London between March2007 –July 2008.
Her pleas are currently been heard before the Nursing and Midwifery Council panel, where she has also been charged with making mistakes in clinical practices, including problems inserting catheters and repeated failures to carry out blood pressure checks before administering drugs.
The most grievous of her crimes are, her failure to recognize that a patient was dead and leaving another barely naked in a mixed sex ward with relatives of patients walking around.
Ndubeze, who is being represented by her husband at the central London hearing, also faces a series of other charges.
The panel has heard Ndubeze was placed on a six-week development plan between June 18, 2007, and July 29, 2007
During that time, it is claimed she demonstrated poor prioritisation of patient care and failed to ask for help or admit a lack of knowledge.
She was also allegedly not capable of focusing on more than one task at a time or of undertaking full patient observations.
The hearing was told that in light of her apparently continuing mistakes, Ndubeze was called before a disciplinary hearing in December 2007.
But she allegedly refused to accept the outcome – that she would have to undergo a period of performance management.
Ndubeze has not formally admitted any of the charges against her.
The hearing continues.
