A nurse neglected a dementia sufferer and described her as "histrionic" after she failed to realise the patient had fractured her hip during a fall. The elderly woman suffered in agony for two days before she was taken to hospital and her injury was discovered.
Tracey Nicholls, 58, of Bridgend, was working as a nurse at Anwen Care Home in Ogmore Vale where the the dementia patient, a great grandmother who had been diagnosed with dementia 10-years-ago, had recently moved into due to increasing frailty.
A sentencing hearing at Newport Crown Court on Tuesday heard the victim suffered a fall on August 24 2021, and hit her arm on a chair. Nicholls didn't witness the fall but attended to the patient, who was described as being in "very real distress".
