Nurse ‘squirted patient in face’ (From Dudley News)

Nurse ‘squirted patient in face’

3:13pm Wednesday 17th January 2007 in

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A RUSSELLS Hall Hospital nurse squirted drugs into the face of a patient and asked another to shave herself before an operation, a misconduct hearing was told.

Mum-of-two Sakina Hozheri is facing a series of accusations relating to her three-month spell at the Priory Hospital in Birmingham, from which she was sacked in 2004 before joining Russells Hall Hospital.

A Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) hearing was told she handed a razor to a patient who needed to be shaved before an operation and told her to do it herself.

Clare Strickland, representing the NMC, said Patient A was recovering from a hip operation when the African-born 39-year-old nurse tried to give her an antibiotic she did not have permission to handle.

She said: "She tried to administer the drugs into the patient's arm and failed.

"It didn't work and the patient was left with bruising on her arm.

"It is also alleged the drugs squirted out of the syringe and into her face, which caused her distress.

"A patient needed a pubic shave. Hozheri handed her a razor and told her to shave herself, even though that was not appropriate and would have been very difficult for her to do so."

Jim Tindal, representing Hozheri, said she denied the allegations and had an incident-free 16-year career since she qualified in 1990.

He said she was supporting her two children and her sister, who had arrived in the UK as an asylum seeker.

Hozheri came to the UK herself in 2000.

The panel, sitting on Thursday January 11, decided not to suspend Hozheri while she awaits a full hearing on a date to be fixed.

Chairman Sue Sauter said: "We note you have been working as a nurse since your dismissal in 2004.

"There is not evidence before us of any clinical problems in this time."