Coooeee! Nurse struck off for drugs blunders

A nurse who stood at the foot of patients’ beds and yelled ‘cooee’ to get their attention has been thrown out of the profession. Anne Mcdonagh had a ‘near miss’ when she almost administered penicillin to a patient who was allergic to it and couldn’t pronounce drug names properly. The ‘easily distracted’ nurse once spilt a bottle of tablets onto the floor then gave them to a patient and didn’t wash her hands when required. She faced a series of…