A BUNGLING midwife allowed a new mother to go home in pain after misjudging a serious injury she suffered giving birth, a hearing was told.
Fatima Cole, 54, mistakenly identified the injury as low-level when the mother, who had given birth at Burnley General Hospital, needed an operation under general anaesthetic, the Nursing and Midwifery Council heard.
Cole, who also worked at the Royal Blackburn Hosp-ital, admits failing to accurately record the sex of a newborn baby, failing to identify a third degree perineal tear and failing to set up a foetal heart monitor after recording abnormal heart patterns.
She has also admitted recording the wrong sex of a newborn baby in a patient's labour notes.
She denies trying to carry out an internal examination without the consent of the patient, failing to recognise severe jaundice and failing to interpret and report deviations on the partogram.
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