Nurse stopped relative from seeing dying patient

A nurse told a relative of terminally ill patient: ‘Well he’s not dying yet is he’ just minutes before he passed away, a tribunal heard. Joanne Sheppard stopped the relative getting into the end of life care unit at Warwick Hospital in January 2014, where she was employed as a staff nurse. The relative had left the ward to ring her father regarding the deteriorating condition of her grandmother’s partner. Sheppard then wrongly informed her she could not got back on…