‘I could kill someone here and still get job at home’ – foreign nurse in Cumbria struck off
Nimmy George also failed to recognise a dead patient did not require their observation to be taken
A foreign nurse has been banned from the job after telling colleagues: “I could kill someone here and I would still get a job at home.”
Nimmy George, a registered nurse working in Cumbria, also failed to recognise a dead patient did not require their observation to be taken, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) heard.
Ms George, believed to be originally from India, also told a colleague: “If I disposed of my passport that has my visa attached, and not declare, they would not know, I would have to stay in the country because of no passport.”
She was already suspended from practicing as a nurse by an NMC fitness to practise panel over misconduct and incompetence.
But they decided she should be struck off the medical register and banned from working as a nurse, following a further hearing last week.
Ms George had lost her medical registration to work after being suspended in August 2024 after a series of NMC findings about her work and the standards of knowledge, skill and judgment required to practise without supervision between 2021 and 2022.
The NMC findings included Ms George shouting out: “He is having a stroke!” and on another occasion, discovering that a patient was deceased, stated in a loud voice: “It’s my observation that the patient in bed five is dead.”
Other findings by the NMC fitness to practise panel included a lack of knowledge about medicines, failing to pay attention to colleagues during handover, take proper medical notes, check medical records, check patients’ identities and mixing up different patients’ medical notes.
In a ruling the NMC said Ms George had not engaged with the body after her initial suspension or demonstrated any insight into her failings.
The NMC ruling ended: “The panel therefore concluded that the only sanction that would adequately protect the public and serve the public interest was a striking-off order.”