End of career for nurse who failed to give drugs

A nurse who put patients at risk after failing to administer their prescribed medication and then lied about it about it has been struck off. Linah Kearns did not give residents their lunchtime medication while working at the Stowford House Care Home in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. Kearns then filled in forms saying she had given the medication, the Nursing and Midwifery Council heard. The medication was to manage chronic health conditions and control the symptoms suffered by the service users. Kearns…