Romanian nurse’s punishment for dementia sufferer

A Romanian nurse who gave an elderly dementia sufferer a ‘Chinese burn’ has been kicked out of the profession. Lenuta Botezatu was working a night shift on the Benham Ward at Northampton General Hospital when the man lashed out as she took him to the toilet on 17 October 2017. Botezatu grabbed the patient’s arm and shouted: ‘If you carry on I  break your wrist.’ An eye witness to the incident told the Nursing and Midwifery Council: ‘She then grabbed…

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