A Glasgow nurse named Shirley McLean has been struck off the register by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) following a range of misconduct allegations.
Among the allegations was that McLean drank patients’ medicine directly from the bottle while on shift. The NMC hearing considered multiple charges of professional misconduct before reaching the decision to remove her from the register.
NMC Decision
Being struck off the register means McLean is no longer permitted to practise as a nurse in the United Kingdom. The NMC imposes the sanction in cases where it considers the misconduct to be fundamentally incompatible with continued registration.
The full details of all the misconduct findings have not been widely reported, but the case involved what the NMC described as a range of serious allegations relating to McLean’s conduct during her employment.