NURSE FORGED SIGNATURE

SHEFFIELD A nurse who falsified a signature on a controlled drug register to avoid getting into trouble for administering medicine late has been banned from the profession. Andrea Newman signed fentanyl patches off in a colleague’s name while working at the Lower Bowshaw View Nursing Home in Sheffield, the Nursing and Midwifery Council heard. After she was caught out, Newman said in interview: ‘I was late doing the patch and I was frightened to go and get her. ‘I know…