Nurse said suicide victim would ‘faint before she hurts herself’

A mental health nurse has been struck off after he walked away when a suicidal patient turned up at her ward with a shoelace around her neck hours before she committed suicide. Patrick McKee said: ‘She’ll faint before she hurts herself’ as the patient tugged at the ligature – then turned and walked away McKee later described the patient in her records at Miranda House, Kingston-upon-Hull for July 25, 2014 as ‘calm and collected.’ The Nursing and Midwifery Council Fitness…