A NURSE has been cautioned after a three-day disciplinary hearing found her guilty of three charges of professional misconduct.

Susan Mary Cheshire, 41, from Blackburn, faced a three-day hearing of the Nursing and Midwifery Council's Professional Conduct Committee, in Accrington.

The committee found the facts were proven on three counts of misconduct relating to her work as a registered general nurse at the White Ash Brook nursing and residential home, Thwaites Road, Oswaldtwistle, between November 1999 and January 2001.

The charges included failing to attend to a resident who had been incontinent, on not more than 20 occasions, failing to examine a resident found with her tongue hanging out and with one side of her body limp and failing to ensure a resident was put to bed. One other charge was withdrawn and two others were found not to be proved.

The committee told Mrs Cheshire: "As a registered nurse you must always safeguard and promote the interests of individual patients and clients and recognise the uniqueness and dignity of each patient and client and respond to their needs.

"You must ensure that no action or omission on your part or within your sphere of responsibility is detrimental to the interests, condition or safety of patients and clients."

They added her conduct had been "unworthy of a nurse."

The committee heard that Mrs Cheshire had learnt from her mistakes and was effectively monitored in her current workplace.

The caution will stay on her records for five years.

A spokesman for White Ash Brook nursing home said management had no comment to make on the case.