Nurse banned for manhandling dementia patient in bath

A nurse who manhandled an elderly dementia patient while giving her a bed bath has been banned for three months. Elizabeth Hughes left another lying in pain for six hours with an undressed bedsore on the Langlands Unit at Southern General Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland. She also tried to administer medication to a patient who had a high risk of falling while they were standing up so she could catch up on her drug rounds. At the time she was…