thisiscornwall.co.uk on February 14, 2012 reported that a nurse who turned up drunk for a shift at a care home has been suspended for 12 months. Andrea Anderson-Lambert, 55, was dishevelled and swaying from side to side when she arrived at the King Charles Court Nursing home in Falmouth, Cornwall. Her behaviour was “bizarre” and erratic, on what was her second shift at the home on September 8, 2008, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) was told. The nurse had also been cautioned for wasting police time for drunkenly calling the emergency services 32 times. The NMC found that the police caution “was not fundamentally incompatible” with being a nurse. Anderson-Lambert will now have to demonstrate she has reformed her ways in 12 months if she wants be reinstated as a nurse.

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