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A NURSE who forged a deceased OAP’s signature to obtain hundreds of opiate drugs has been struck off.

Deborah Pyra stole a prescription pad that had been left behind by a GP visiting elderly residents at Abbey Court Care Home in Paisley.

An inquiry was told that the nurse attempted then went to a pharmacy and attempted to obtain 200 Tradamadol drugs.

The signature she forged was a care home home resident who had died a week earlier.

The Co-Op pharmacy in Quarry Street in Johnston became suspicious and alerted the home.

A day later, when questioned, the nurse denied she had done anything wrong.

However, she later wrote in an application for voluntary redundancy: “The trust I breached can never be regained.”

An inquiry by the Nursing and Midwifery Panel said that continuing to allow Mr Pyra to practice as a nurse would undermine public confidence in the profession.

It found: “Miss Pyra attended at the pharmacy with a prescription she knew was not genuine for a large quantity of tramadol, a controlled drug, as well as some eye ointment,

and attempted to obtain said items.

“This was therefore not an opportunistic act but was deliberate and involved an element of planning.”

The incident happened on November 19, 2013.

In a separate inquiry a care home nurse has been struck off after he held a wet incontinence pad close to an elderly woman and said: “Look at this, look how wet you are.” or words to that effect.

Colin Donnelly also “used more force than was necessary” to straight the woman’s arm and said “she’s starting to p*** me off.”

The incidents happened in April 2013, while the nurse was employed by NHS Highland.

It found: “Mr Donnelly acted in a manner that could foreseeably have resulted in harm to patients and that this has been compounded by his persistent lack of

insight into the seriousness of his actions and consequences of them.”

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/15314917.Nurse_who_forged_a_dead_OAPs_signature_for_opiate_drugs_struck_off/