A nurse has been suspended for three months after allegedly forcing medication into a patient's mouth at a care home near Bristol. Reni Vankova Kirilova began employment at Charterhouse Care Home in the Chocolate Quarter in Keynsham on May 23, 2019.
The Nurse and Midwifery Council has found that on May 30 that year, she forced a dementia patient to take medicine and held the patient's mouth closed. She was suspended from work on 7 June, 2019 pending a police investigation, and subsequently resigned from employment at the care home on the same day. The police investigation took no further action against her.
Witnesses told a Nurse and Midwifery Council hearing that Ms Kirilova forced medication into the patient’s mouth. According to one witness, the patient was "distressed" throughout the episode and she was "waving her hands everywhere" and was shouting, "no, no, no".
