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Cruel WhatsApp Chat Of Two Nurses Who Sedated Patients For Their Own Amusement
The cruel Whatsapp chat of two nurses who sedated their patients for their own amusement has leaked.
Aside public opprobrium, the two nurses, Catherine Hudson 54, and Charlotte Wilmot, 48, have been found guilty of unlawful drugging of patients put under their care.
Their indictment and eventual conviction followed probes into their alleged misconduct, the mailonline heard.
Hudson wrote to her friend that she was going to ‘kill bed 5’ and planned to give one patient ‘the best sleep she ever had’.
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In another Cruel WhatsApp Chat to a colleague, Hudson wrote: ‘What a lovely day I have had in blue bay today. Sedated all the troublemakers lol xxx.’
In May 2016, in response to Hudson suggesting the sedation of a patient, Wilmot replied: ‘Ha ha yeah sedation we love it.’
The friends were today warned that they face jail for their crimes. Neither nurse has ever been accused of causing any deaths, although patients on their ward were ‘profoundly unwell’, the report added.
Hudson was convicted of drugging two patients during work shifts between February 2017 and November 2018.
Though she was cleared of ill-treating two other patients, jurors at Preston Crown Court also convicted her of conspiring with a junior colleague, Charlotte Wilmot, 48, to administer a sedative to a third patient.
Prosecutors said messages between Hudson, an experienced Band 5 registered nurse, and Wilmot a Band 4 assistant practitioner, revealed a ‘culture of abuse’ – with patients drugged for their ‘own amusement’.
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Two days later, Hudson told Wilmot how she had sedated the patient, recalling that he was ‘gearing up to start’, before minutes later saying he was ‘out like a light now’.
Wilmot replied: ‘praise the lord.’
The pair shared another disturbing exchange in April that year when Hudson joked that a patient in bed 29 had was doing ‘not a f***ing lot’ because she had sedated her two days in row.
‘Yeahhhh I knew it everything you gave her has started working today!!!!,’ Wilmot responded. ‘Made for a nice day though it aint been bad lol. Xxx’
Hudson replied: ‘Excellent.’. Many more were revealed in the Cruel WhatsApp Chat.
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A student nurse on a work placement told authorities she saw Hudson give unprescribed sleeping pill Zopiclone to a patient in November 2018, Preston Crown Court heard.
The student nurse was further troubled when Hudson commented: ‘Well she’s got a DNAR (do not attempt resuscitation) in place so she wouldn’t be opened up if she died or like if it came to any harm.’
She bravely gave evidence against them.