Nurse did not call ambulance for overdose woman

A care home nurse twice told a support worker not to call an ambulance for a resident after being told she may have taken an overdose. Josan Icot, who worked at St Stephen’s Court Care Home, Newcastle, said she would check on the resident herself after she had finished the medication round, the Nursing and Midwifery Council heard today (Wed). The support worker, Sarah Bisset, spoke on the phone to acting care home manager Kirsty Nealis who told her to…