8:13am Friday 30th May 2008
By Guardian Reporter
A nurse who gave two pensioners overdoses of the same powerful sleeping drug has been given a caution.
Lucille Nwokocha, 65 of Wandsworth, gave the two elderly men double their required doses of Temazepam while on duty on the Jones Ward at the Royal Chelsea Hospital, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) heard.
The pensioners - referred to as patients A and B - only needed 20mg of the sedative but Nwokocha accidentally gave each 40mg on March 10, 2005.
She then tried to cover her tracks and failed to tell colleagues about the blunder, the panel heard.
Yesterday she was given a caution at the hearing.
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