Nurse made child swallow charcoal

A nurse who forced liquid charcoal down a 14-year-old girl’s throat is free to return to work. The female mental health patient was held down in a chair by several nurses and made to swallow the foul liquid after taking a paracetamol overdose. Jason Dance was working for Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust at the time of the incident on 2 November 2014, the Nursing and Midwifery Council heard. Dance ordered colleagues to restrain the overdosing teen who was shouting…