{"id":307436,"date":"2026-02-20T05:19:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/307436\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T05:19:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:19:29","slug":"nurse-accused-of-abusing-vulnerable-patient-and-threatening-to-kill-her-fitness-to-practise-inquiry-is-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/307436\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurse accused of abusing vulnerable patient and threatening to kill her, fitness-to-practise inquiry is told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Alleged incident took place in a Portlaoise nursing home in 2021\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kilminchy Lodge Nursing Home in Portlaoise, where the alleged incident took place. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/3af9c27a-450c-4226-a2ea-55e2426e0837.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Kilminchy Lodge Nursing Home in Portlaoise, where the alleged incident took place. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A nurse accused of verbal, physical and psychological abuse of a vulnerable patient also threatened to kill her, a fitness-to-practise committee has been told.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Xhilda Zana, a registered nurse, was employed at Kilminchy Lodge Nursing Home in Portlaoise when the alleged incident occurred on September 6, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alleged incident took place in a Portlaoise nursing home in 2021 Kilminchy Lodge Nursing Home in Portlaoise, where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[24119,103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":["post-307436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-eavan-murray","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}