'It's not my job' - Nurse with 'attitude issue' who ignored distressed patients' calls could be struck off
A former Shropshire nurse with an “attitude” problem who gave out the wrong medication and ignored the calls of distressed patients could be struck off.
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Olatokunbo Adebayo, who worked at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) as an agency nurse, has now been suspended for six months after a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) review hearing earlier this month.
Miss Adebayo worked for the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust temporarily, as well as Singleton Hospital in Swansea and University College London Hospitals Trust, on behalf of Your World Recruitment Group between April 2018 and June 2019. She became a registered nurse in September 2011.
A hearing in June 2023 was told that she failed to give out medication, leaving it on tables and not observing patients taking it; refused to help a colleague look after a stroke patient, saying “it’s not my job”; told colleagues she was “too busy” to help while using her personal phone; and ignored patient calls, leaving them “very distressed”.
One of the patients she ignored was a woman who had lost a leg and needed help getting to the toilet.
Miss Adebayo told her: “It’s not my job, it is not my area. I suggest you keep buzzing until the helper comes and they will come and help you.”
