Nurse banned for switching off monitoring alarm and scrolling phone before patient’s death
She also FaceTimed her family rather than carrying out observations on the 85-year-old, a tribunal finds
A nurse has been suspended after a patient died hours after she disconnected the telemetry alarm speaker on his and four other patients’ monitors.
During her shift, the nurse also spent more than an hour on her phone, including FaceTiming family overseas, rather than conducting regular observations, the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal said.
