End of career for slapping nurse

A nurse who slapped a colleague and screamed at an elderly patient has been kicked out of the profession. Cordelia Ihejieto smacked a nursing assistant at University Hospital Bristol in front of a patient on 10 February 2017, a tribunal heard. Four days later on 14 February, the nurse rushed over to a patient suffering from Alzheimer’s and barked ‘what are you doing’ at the elderly woman and her daughter. Ihejieto described the slapping incident as ‘tapping’ on the shoulder…