A TEARFUL nurse was struck off on Tuesday, for placing patients and colleagues in danger by ignoring advice and ploughing ahead with her own ideas for treatment.
Dilys Turner, 41, who had a reputation for using colourful language at work, made a series of Òprofessional judgementsÓ overruling doctorsÕ orders and breaching safety protocol at the North Hampshire Hospital at Basingstoke.
In one instance a top surgical consultant was forced to cancel a weekend sailing and rush back to hospital, after the staff nurse ignored his instructions regarding treating a private patient.
A conduct committee found that a string of practices employed by Turner were outmoded and even risked her own health.
The mother-of-two, from Farnham, was also found to have ÒinappropriatelyÓ allowed a patient to visit her home after his discharge, and to have accepted his gift of a Chinese meal for her family before driving him to London to catch a train to Scotland.
She also agreed to take £100 in cash from the patient Ð using it to buy wine as a thank you to ward staff who had cared for him Ð but again risking her professional integrity.
Turner admitted most of the allegations concerning her work on the hospitalÕs high-dependency C2 surgical ward in 2001.
And the Nursing and Midwifery CouncilÕs professional conduct committee found the remainder proved over a three-day hearing.
The catalogue of failings were all found to be professional misconduct.