Nurses jailed over faked BG tests.

Two nurses who failed to carry out blood glucose tests on patients and then faked the results have been jailed.

Lauro Bertulano, 46, and Rebecca Jones, 31, neglected patients on a specialist stroke ward at Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend.

A third, Natalie Jones, 42, was given a community order for the same offence.

Cardiff Crown Court heard they failed to check blood glucose levels at least every two hours on multiple occasions. All three previously pleaded guilty to multiple charges of wilful neglect.

Rebecca Jones was sentenced to eight months, Bertulano to four and Natalie Jones was given a 12-month community order. Sentencing, Judge Tom Crowther QC said: "I pause to remind myself that you all would have seen worried relatives coming and going, sitting with their mothers, fathers or spouses as they lay ill, some approaching the end of their lives, and to wonder with bemusement how you could have continued to betray your patients and those families as you did.

"This was not a failure to do your job, it was a failure of compassion and humanity.

"This was clear-eyed and calculated deception, the purpose of which was to make the defendants' working time easier.

More on this story here.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-35090879

This should be astonishing but since so many doctors and nurses believe/are told that BG is irrelevant and only A1c is important, it isn't really surprising at all.

Many nurses (including one at Joslin) come up with variants on "if you test your blood after you eat, of course it will be high, that's because you are diabetic! You should wait until it comes back down again before testing". The absolute nadir was a nurse who stated "if you test your BG you will damage your fingers and then you won't be able to read Braille when you go blind!"

I find it hard to consider these people "Heathcare Professionals" when they don't care about health.

Makes you wonder if this is happening in other hospitals too, not saying all nurses are the same as the ones featured but it is a worry for elderly insulin dependents.

Note that only the nurses were punished, not the managers who may have instructed them to do this.

You rotten bugger! I was going to post that Christmas card for dieticians.

chris c wrote:You rotten bugger! I was going to post that Christmas card for dieticians.

Not to worry Chris here's one for you to send to the dietitians 

graham64 wrote:

chris c wrote:You rotten bugger! I was going to post that Christmas card for dieticians.

Not to worry Chris here's one for you to send to the dietitians 

Spot on!