What specifically in the defendants professional conduct has clearly crossed that boundary? The sending a card to the family where she couldn't attend the funeral (but is implied others did?) I would not consider crossing a boundary if the team did get to know the family as she described. That seems to have been the "worst" individual example, and is certainly something I've known pass without comment before.
"keep going against your senior" - it can be very hard to remember with the fact we've spent 6 months hearing about events that happened primarily in several minutes to hour long periods over a dozen shifts spread over a year, and that 7 years ago - but I never got the impression that this was a general pattern, and most of her colleagues still seem to acknowledge she was an exemplary nurse.
Rather, it seemed that on a few occasions colleagues told her she should take a break (as anyone in such a job gets told multiple times) and she generally insisted she was fine, and she did appear to get on with the job, so I'm not sure the evidence says otherwise.
I said it could point to "hoarding" rather than "obsession" - but I still think we're talking about 30+ handover sheets that have slowly been accumulating in the bottom of the bag over several months - she eventually takes the time to empty out the bag, shoves the handover sheets to one side to figure out how to properly dispose of later, and without realising, she's accumulated 10 here, 5 there, 40 there, 3 there and when the police search, they total up 257 from years of work, presumably amongst many other irrelevant documents - to her, she accidentally takes home a handover sheet a little less than once a week on average, shoves paperwork into a cupboard every now and then and intends to deal with it on a rainy day that never arrived.
Valid points, in part, but equally the issue you raise with the handover sheets appears to be your point of view rather than fact. We simply don’t know if they have accumulated like you describe or not; only what the defence has indicated today.
It was reported these were specific to 2015-16 and we could do with some more clarity on this; you said it was years prior to this she had them in a previous post I think? Do you have a link to your source please?
Regardless, it is an horrendous amount of confidential papers to have stashed up and *if* this is supposedly accumulated over her working life since qualifying, one must ask, where are the rest? Seemingly disposed of properly perhaps, yet she stated she didn’t know how to dispose of them. She’s also been carrying them around in the same bag so I don’t see how she couldn’t have returned them or even, upon looking into her bag thought she could burn or shred them. Just a thought.
In evidence, her senior reported she was asked more than once not to keep going back into the family room of bereaved parents.
Another mother was also distressed by her comments about putting her baby in a Moses basket where the mother stated; “he’s not dead yet”
She was also told no about going back into room and did continue to question this. On other occasions she was advised by her colleagues she needed a break, they were worried for her and she was quite abrupt in her response.
These are just some examples, but the majority of evidence already provided in relation to this (which you might like to read) can be found in the links to previous threads.
Regarding professional conduct and crossing boundaries which you have asked about and I think I have already answered this.
You may not view this as unprofessional conduct, but many seniors and fitness to practice panels do. Of course, you will have your view and I will have mine and that is perfectly fine. We do not have to agree.
JMO
