Nurse let off with warning after punching elderly woman in the face

Jersey

A nurse who punched a patient in the face and refused to help a blind woman out of bed to use the toilet will not be suspended because that would ‘deprive the public’ of his services. Benjamin Tuazon was a nurse at the Samares Ward in Overdale Hospital, Jersey when he struck an elderly patient in or around January 2009. Another nurse, known only as Ms 3, said Tuazon admitted over the phone that he had ‘instinctively’ hit the woman,…

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