A care home worker has been struck off for upsetting a dementia patient by hitting an empathy doll in the face and throwing it to the ground, saying “it was funny.”
Paula Lambert, who worked at the HC-One Redmill care home in East Whitburn, has been told her “fitness to practise is impaired” following the incident by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC).
The council said that while in the presence of service user - referred to as AA - who has dementia, Lambert hit an empathy doll on the face, on at least one occasion and on the body, threw the doll on the floor, on at least one occasion and forcefully poked it in the face.
