Carer given warning after patient found naked, crying and caked in own faeces

Natalie Walker left multiple vulnerable care home residents lying in their own filth after failing to carry out all required checks on her nightshift.

One of the patients was just out of hospital with a hip operation wound and was found by staff in the morning naked and crying whilst ‘caked in her own faeces’.

The SSSC Panel heard awitness said: “She was shouting and she was freezing. She was naked as she had pulled off all of her soiled garments and the sheets. She was crying.”

Another resident was found extremely distressed and soaked in her own urine after no one came to check on her despite buzzing for assistance throughout the night.

This patient was left furious and upset because she had no problem alerting staff that she needed the toilet but needed help getting there.

But after Walker failed to answer her buzzer the vulnerable woman was forced to repeatedly wet herself.

A third patient, who had dementia, was also found in the morning covered in faeces and extremely upset and apologising to staff who cleaned her up.

It was also uncommon for this patient to become incontinent as she would usually ask staff for help when she needed the toilet.

One witness who has 20 years experience as a care worker said she had “never seen anything like that before or since” and was stunned by the repugnant smell that was coming out of the patients rooms.

She felt ‘disgusted’ by what she found and said it would witness said: “She was shouting and she was freezing. She was naked as she had pulled off all of her soiled garments and the sheets. She was crying.”

Another resident was found extremely distressed and soaked in her own urine after no one came to check on her despite buzzing for assistance throughout the night.

This patient was left furious and upset because she had no problem alerting staff that she needed the toilet but needed help getting there.

But after Walker failed to answer her buzzer the vulnerable woman was forced to repeatedly wet herself.

A third patient, who had dementia, was also found in the morning covered in faeces and extremely upset and apologising to staff who cleaned her up.

It was also uncommon for this patient to become incontinent as she would usually ask staff for help when she needed the toilet.

One witness who has 20 years experience as a care worker said she had “never seen anything like that before or since” and was stunned by the repugnant smell that was coming out of the patients rooms.

She felt ‘disgusted’ by what she found and said it would witness said: “She was shouting and she was freezing. She was naked as she had pulled off all of her soiled garments and the sheets. She was crying.”

Walker had been a ‘trusted’ member of staff who was usually ‘fantastic with the residents’ and ‘very patient’ so colleagues were left shocked by what they found.

The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) decided and a panel meeting that since the behaviour was a “one off” and she usually was very good with patients that they would issue Walker with a two year warning restriction on her registration as a carer.