Abstract
It is important for the nursing profession to examine any case of misconduct particularly when it involves a nurse murdering patients. Recently Colin Norris, 32, was convicted of murdering four elderly patients by administrating overdoses of insulin. What emerges for me from this case are several things which may in the future help to prevent this situation happening again. Norris is reportedly to have said that he disliked caring for older people and some elderly patients recalled at his trial that he had been rude and dismissive to them. Nursing colleagues and student nurses described his attitude towards older patients as someone with a very dry sense of humour. On many occasions I am sure such an opinion would have gone unnoticed, were it not for the intensity and arrogance of the male staff nurse and probably the way he behaved towards such vulnerable people. Norris told the court that this was a joke and that as a nurse you ‘laugh about things you probably shouldn’t laugh about’.
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