Nurse was so drunk she laughed at critically ill patients

A hospital nurse who turned up for work on a critical care unit drunk after an all-night bender was suspended for just six months. Catherine Hampson was so inebriated she laughed inappropriately at patients and scrawled her notes off the side of the page. Her bosses at The Countess of Chester Hospital suspended her immediately at the end of her shift and advised her to hand herself in to police for drink driving to work. Police were called to the…