A Romanian nurse has been banned from working in Britain after he used a pen and a drinking straw to try and relieve a patient’s constipation.
Traian Dumitrescu, 32, was sacked from a care home after he inserted the objects into the dementia patient’s backside as part of a bizarre procedure at a care home in Powys, Wales.
A misconduct panel heard the man screamed out in pain and was told by Dumitrescu everything was ‘OK’.
Dumitrescu was struck off from the care home (pictured) after inserting the object up a dementia patient’s backside
He was dismissed from Crosfield House Care Home after stunned colleagues reported him to bosses.
Dumitrescu was handed a one-year conditions of practice order in December 2015, allowing him to continue working in the UK if he completed extra training.
On that occasion, a disciplinary panel was satisfied that he demonstrated ‘some insight’ and ‘accepted his behaviour was wrong’.
But last week a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) in London hearing was told he had refused to complete the training after returning to his home in Romania.
The panel concluded he was a risk to the public and no longer fit to practice and imposed a striking-off order to ‘maintain public confidence in the profession’.
Panel chair Paul Powici said: ‘There is nothing to indicate that Mr Dumitrescu has developed insight into, nor taken steps to remedy, his misconduct.
‘The panel noted that it had been made clear to Mr Dumitrescu by the previous panel that his registration was at risk should he fail to engage with the review process, comply with the conditions of practice order and demonstrate remediation and insight regarding his misconduct.
‘The panel also considered Mr Dumitrescu has not demonstrated any recent commitment to return to the nursing profession.’
Dumitrescu was first handed a 12-month conditions of practice order by the NMC in December 2014 after he admitted using the objects on an elderly resident with dementia.
A Personal Development Plan was devised for the nurse to address ‘deficiencies’ in the management of constipation, gaining consent to treatment and dementia care.
At a review in December 2015, he was handed a one-year suspension after the panel heard he had not complied with the conditions of practice order.
A year later a new conditions of practice order was imposed as Dumitrescu had expressed a desire to return to nursing.
The conditions included undertaking training and producing a piece of reflective writing on the need to treat patients with dignity and respect.
But at the latest review meeting, the panel said there was ‘no new information’ as Dumitrescu had again failed to meet the conditions.
The striking-off order will come into effect on January 13 next year.