A Liverpool nurse was suspended for two months after administering medicines to the wrong patient and attempting to cover it up.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council found that Zanele Lisa Sibanda’s fitness to practise was impaired and fell seriously short of the expected standard after giving a patient at Clatterbridge Hospital, Wirral, medication meant for someone else and then claiming she had not done so. A three-day NMC fitness to practise hearing held earlier this month said the mental health nurse put patients at “serious risk of harm.”
The written determination said that on April 26 2020, Ms Sibanda administered controlled drugs to somebody referred to as Patient B, when they were meant for Patient A and failed to report the error. This was done without another nurse present, contrary to controlled drug standard procedure.
