Nurse kissed care home resident to ‘comfort’ her

A male nurse who claimed he kissed a 75 year-old care home resident to ‘comfort’ her has been suspended for six months. Dimitrios Kokkinidis, was accused of groping her breast and kissing her on the lips after she became distressed at Moreland House care home in Hornchurch, Essex, on 6 May 2015. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) found his actions could have been ‘misguided’ and not sexually motivated. It was only the second day of Kokkinidis’ new job at…