A BUNGLING nurse has held on to her career after she was found to have made a series of serious errors in less than three weeks at a private hospital.
Eleanor Perfitt forced one patient to wait for a vital x-ray after she allowed him food when he was not supposed to eat.
She wrongly claimed stitches had been removed from another patient when discharging him from the BMI Huddersfield Hospital in Birkby.
The nurse also allowed a patient to go into the operating theatre while still wearing make-up and jewellery and failed to record whether she had given another a series of pain-killing injections.
She was yesterday found to have made 13 failures during the three-week period between November and December, 2007, at the Nursing and Midwifery Council heard.
Just one charge was found not proved by the panel.
Louise Culleton, for the NMC, said the nurse had been working on Simpson Ward at the BMI Huddersfield Hospital, previously known as Nuffield Hospital, at the time of the incidents in 2007.
Perfitt was given a formal caution after the panel found she had ‘some insight’ and could be fit to practice as a nurse again.
The panel concluded that Parfitt could practice safely in the future if she took steps to remedy her practise. Panel chairman Caroline Duthie said: “A caution order for five years is a sufficient and proportionate sanction to reflect the seriousness of the case and to protect the public.”
