Caution for slapping nurse

A nurse who exchanged slaps to the face with an elderly dementia patient has been given a caution. Leilani Quijano told the vulnerable resident ‘you know what you are doing if you slap me I will slap you back’ at Callington Road Hospital in Bristol. The Nursing and Midwifery Council heard the elderly woman, referred to as Resident A, had earlier thrown a cup of tea over Quijano. Resident A had been disruptive for much of the night and at…