Povall had already admitted failing to preserve patient safety by working excessive hours, and sending a text message about a staff member, referred to as Colleague C.<\/p>\n
Povall’s text said: “I had to stop myself from [sic] as I would rather gouge her eyeballs out and shove them down her throat”.<\/p>\n
She denied all other allegations, including telling Colleague C that she should have apologised after arriving late, and being aggressive in tone to Colleague C when she tried to step in to help with a medical machine.<\/p>\n
The panel found those charges proven, as well as the following charges:<\/p>\n
Failed to demonstrate appropriate standards of leadership by failing to ensure staffing levels were appropriate<\/p>\n
Declined to assist a colleague with a patient’s bypassed catheter and asked him to continue observations<\/p>\n
Regarding a patient who had not passed urine, Povall told a colleague: “Leave the patient and she will wee”, instead of requesting a bladder scan<\/p>\n
Said: “You need to get him [a patient] home tomorrow”, or words to that effect, knowing that the patient had low haemoglobin and required a blood transfusion<\/p>\n
However the panel did not find that Povall’s actions caused Colleague C to bring a grievance and resign.<\/p>\n
Povall accepted the panel’s findings, and admitted that she had behaved inappropriately.<\/p>\n
The panel concluded that all the proven facts amounted to misconduct, apart from telling Colleague C she should have apologised after arriving late.<\/p>\n
Its chair, Richard Weydert told Povall that her fitness to practice remained impaired, but said it was limited specifically to charges that were clinical matters.<\/p>\n
Weydert said Povall was “essentially remediated” regarding concerns in her conduct towards Colleague C, as well as working excesive hours, and failing to ensure staffing levels were adequate.<\/p>\n
“But there is an outstanding impairment going forward because we’ve found you’ve not fully remediated on the clinical charges as yet,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Povall had already admitted failing to preserve patient safety by working excessive hours, and sending a text message…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-367615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}