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Okay, So Maybe Working In A Nursing Home Isn't The Best Job, But ...

By John Mesirow

Warning: Brushing your teeth will not be the same for a little while after you read this. As reported in the Evening Telegraph, nursing home worker Nina Strange

...dip[ped] a toothbrush into bath water, in which a patient had just defecated, before using it to brush the 75-year-old woman's teeth.

That's just the grossest of the transgressions of which Ms. Strange was convicted. Here are the others:

- hitting an 88-year-old wheelchair-bound woman across the back of the head;

- twice hitting an 81-year-old man around the head; and

- pulling an 81-year-old woman's hair as she put her to bed.

Ms. Strange has been suspended, and is awaiting sentencing. Here's the source.

Full post as published by Legal Juice on May 09, 2008 (boomark / email).