Nurse who lied about care instructions struck off

A Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) panel said Ms Gould's dishonesty was "premeditated and systematic"

A community nurse who lied after she completed a patient visit alone when she was told to do it with another colleague has been struck off.

Bryony Gould, who worked in Weymouth and Portland, Dorset, was told by a manager in a patient's clinical notes that two colleagues should carry out the person's collar care in July 2020.

But she said she did not check those notes, completed the visit herself and accepted she had doctored the document that said she must visit with another nurse.

A Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) panel said her "premeditated and systematic deception" was "fundamentally incompatible" with staying on its register.

Ms Gould's supervisor initially worried they had made a "serious mistake" by failing to tell her in the notes that the collar care should have been done by two people.

But Ms Gould covered up those details in pictures of the notes that she sent to her colleague.

The panel found had Ms Gould sent the original document as it was written, her failure to carry out the visit with another colleague "would have been immediately obvious".

Though it found she caused no harm to the patient, it said her actions were a "significant departure" from the standards expected.