The man is removed from the register in which all healthcare workers must be included.
The Healthcare and Youth Inspectorate had already instructed the man in March to stop working immediately. This is a rare emergency measure that has only been possible for a few years. The inspectorate also went to the disciplinary board for a final decision.
The inspectorate had received several complaints about the man at the end of last year and the beginning of this year, and he had also made mistakes during his training. In October last year, he did not respond during a night shift when clients at a healthcare institution pressed a bell to call for help. One of the patients needed help to get Parkinson’s symptoms under control. The nurse also removed morphine, oxycodone, methylphenidate, diazepam and midazolam from a medicine cabinet, making those drugs no longer available to patients. On the way back home, officers checked the man and found that he had THC and morphine in his blood.
Man admitted to smoking joints and using ketamine
At the beginning of this year things went wrong again. During a night shift at another institution, the man wanted to cook something, but he let it burn, causing the fire alarm to go off. That morning, colleagues saw that he was covered in blood. The man claimed that he had cut himself on a piece of paper, but there was also blood on the medicine cabinets, medicine boxes and a key, and substances had disappeared from the medicine cabinets. On the way back home he had a single-vehicle accident with his car.
During a conversation with the inspectorate, the man admitted that he smoked two to three joints a day and also used ketamine.
The man can still appeal against the sentence, but to be on the safe side, the disciplinary board has determined that he is no longer allowed to work in healthcare pending that decision.