A “BULLYING” nurse who pinched and punched colleagues faces being kicked out of the profession.
Aldrona Christian repeatedly grabbed care assistant Debbie Parks by the upper arm while working at a brain injury centre in Newport.
She also left care assistant Gulia Ramon in tears by punching her in the back without warning.
The senior nurse managed to stop her colleagues complaining about her by pretending she was related to their manager at the Mount Eveswell Young Persons Unit.
Paula Burton, chairwoman of the misconduct panel at the Nursing and Midwifery Council, said that her actions amounted to “intimidating, bullying and inappropriate behaviour”.
“Your conduct was designed to inhibit staff from reporting any incident to management,” Mrs Burton added.
The panel are now considering whether her fitness to practise is impaired. If so, she could be suspended or struck off the register.
Miss Ramon had told the hearing how Christian punched her in the back on 23 September, 2011.
“She asked if I was crying and I said: ‘Yes, because it is really painful.’ Aldrona was a bully and said things like ‘’I will kill you,’” Miss Ramon added.
Delivering their ruling on the allegations, Mrs Burton said: “The panel was satisfied to the appropriate standard that you punched Miss Ramon.
“It was Miss Ramon’s evidence that you were very rough with people and said things that were not appropriate.”
Miss Ramon also told the hearing how Christian suddenly pinched Debbie Parks on the arm and walked away.
The “short and sharp”
pinches would leave the skin “red and sore” with “two or three bruises of approximately two centimetres in size”, the panel heard.
After being asked to stop by Miss Parks, Christian said: “Don’t be silly, I haven’t done anything.”
“The panel was satisfied that you did pinch Miss Parks on more than one occasion,” Mrs Burton said.
The panel found that staff had not raised concerns about Christian as they wrongly thought that her nephewwas the unit manager, Manoj George.
Care worker shouted at CHRISTIAN was found to have shouted at a carer who refused to take a resident out for a cigarette before being cleaned as the elderly woman was “covered in faeces”, and told another colleague: “Don’t answer back, go and do as I tell you, I’m the boss here.”
But she was cleared of referring to care assistants as “scum” after the panel accepted she “did not know what the word scum meant”.
Christian was not held responsible for an incident in which a sex toy was removed from a patient’s room and she was cleared of administering medication in a dangerous manner. Charges that she hit a Huntingdon’s sufferer with a spoon and shoved a disabled woman into a lift were also found not proved.
The nurse resigned from the Mount Eveswell Young Persons Unit in September 2012, soon after finding out she was to be investigated for alleged misconduct.
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