Male nurse ‘rubbed amputee’

A nurse rubbed his hands up and down an amputee’s stumps and whispered: ‘I like to touch you’, a hearing was told. Edgar Batallones allegedly exposed the shocked patient’s nipple and caressed it with his ‘thumb and index finger’ while on duty at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton, southwest London. Batallones, who is attending the misconduct hearing at the Nursing and Midwifery Council, denies rubbing the woman’s stumps on 11 October 2015 and telling her ‘I like to touch you’. He…