Nurse left a banana in care home resident’s bed for company

A nurse who put a banana in a care home resident’s bed and said ‘this will keep you company’ has been banned from the profession. Clarisa Bartolome treated the woman poorly while she worked at Crimond House Care Home in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. She caused bruising to the poor woman’s arm by shaking her in the middle of the night. A Nursing and Midwifery Council panel ruled that Bartolome’s ‘degrading, unpleasant and demeaning’ actions meant she should no longer work in…