Nurse abused dementia patient

An abusive nurse who threatened to drop kick a pensioner ‘in the balls’ has been struck off. Carol Briggs told an Alzheimer’s patient lying on the floor at the Willow Court Care Home in North Shields, Tyne and Wear: ‘Get the f**k up, I’ve seen you walk and I’m not breaking my back for you’. When the patient became distressed and started tipping things over she told him to ‘pack it in’. Holding the elderly man down by the wrist,…