(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) A nurse in Britain lost her job after the hospital learned she was having sex with a patient for over a year, with the affair ending with the man dying after having sex with her in the hospital’s parking lot in Wrexham, Wales.
The man, known as patient A, was receiving dialysis treatment and died of a heart attack during sex with the nurse — Penelope Williams, 42 — in January 2022, Fox News reported. Williams failed to call for an ambulance after the patient collapsed in the back of his car.
Patient A died from “heart failure and chronic kidney disease triggered by a medical episode,” according to the outlet.
The death of a man resulted in an investigation and hearing before a Nursing and Midwifery Council [NMC] fitness-to-practice panel. During the hearing, the panel heard a testimony that Williams ignored advice from colleagues who urged her to call an ambulance.
Patient A had met Williams through work, with the latter helping to treat him for his condition. Patient A was found partially naked and unresponsive when emergency personnel eventually arrived.
Instead of calling emergency personnel, Williams called her colleague. The colleague urged her to call an ambulance, but Williams didn’t do it because she was crying and distressed. The colleague called an ambulance instead, which found Patient A dead upon their arrival.
Initially, Williams lied to police and a paramedic by saying that she went to meet Patient A after he messaged her on Facebook because he “felt unwell.” She claimed that she spent “30 to 45 minutes” in the back of his car “just talking.”
At an initial February hearing, Williams added that the man “started groaning and suddenly died.” However, in a later hearing in May, she later admitted that she was lying by saying that she was having sex with him and that night she met him to also have sex. This admission resulted in her being fired from her job.
“Mrs. Williams’ actions were significant departures from the standards expected of a registered nurse, and are fundamentally incompatible with her remaining on the register,” the board stated.
“The panel was of the view that the findings in this particular case demonstrate that Mrs. Williams’ actions were so serious that to allow her to continue practicing would undermine public confidence in the profession and in the NMC as a regulatory body.”
