A Scots nurse who faked medical records has been suspended by a watchdog over foul-mouthed rants in front of dementia patients. Elizabeth Claire Mcallister was found to have exposed residents in her care to a “significant risk of unwarranted harm” during shifts at Whitefield Lodge Care Home in Lennoxtown, Glasgow.
The experienced caregiver admitted using inappropriate language, including the words ‘b****’ and ‘lazy b******’, before telling a colleague that one patient was ‘lying in their own piss and s***’ in May 2020. Mcallister told one vulnerable resident that they had fallen over deliberately because they liked the attention before also failing to properly access another person who had cut their head after a tumble.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) found that the nurse had also falsified records to state that she had carried out observations on residents when she hadn’t. After admitting all the allegations against her, Mcallister, who resigned from her position at the home, has now been suspended from practising for 12 months.
