'Illegal immoral, unethical and dishonest conduct'.GRAEME BRAMWELL POLLOCK, RN A registered nurse, who had appeared in court on drink drive charges several times and who had stolen two capsules of morphine morphine, principal derivative of opium, which is the juice in the unripe seed pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. It was first isolated from opium in 1803 by the German pharmacist F. W. A. sulphate sulphate: see sulfate. from the rest-home where he worked, has had his registration cancelled indefinitely. The Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal The Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal of New Zealand hears and determines disciplinary proceedings brought against health practitioners. The Tribunal was created by section 84 Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 ("the Act") and established 18 , in a decision in May this year, determined that Graeme Bramwell Pollock had been convicted of offences that reflected adversely on his fitness to practise as a nurse. Pollock had been convicted in the District Court in Dunedin on May 31, 2005 of one charge of driving a motor vehicle while the proportion of alcohol in his breath exceeded 400 mcg of alcohol per litre of breath, pursuant to section 56(1) of the Land Transport Act 1988; and in the same court on August 5, 2005, he had been convicted of the theft of two capsules of morphine sulphate, a Class B controlled drug The United Kingdom Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 aimed to control the possession and supply of numerous listed drugs and drug-like substances. The act allowed and regulated the use of some Controlled Drugs (designated CD) by various classes of persons (e.g. , pursuant to section 11(a) of the Misuse of Drugs Act Misuse of Drugs Act is the name of several similar national drug control laws passed by countries in the Commonwealth of Nations and by the Republic of Ireland. With the exception of Ireland's 1977 Act, they all sort drugs into three categories, Classes A, B, and C. 1975. Pollock had appeared in court on alcohol driving matters on five previous occasions and on this occasion had been sentenced to imprisonment Imprisonment See also Isolation. Alcatraz Island former federal maximum security penitentiary, near San Francisco; “escapeproof.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 218] Altmark, the German prison ship in World War II. [Br. Hist. . This reflected the seriousness of his offending and reflected adversely on his fitness to practise. The victims of Pollock's theft of morphine were not only the rest-home at which he had been employed, but its elderly residents. His substitution of morphine with sucrose had potentially deprived patients of pain relief and his attempt to avoid detection by means of this substitution was inconsistent with the standards of those who are fit to practise nursing. The Tribunal considered that such illegal, immoral, unethical and dishonest conduct reflected adversely on his fitness to practise. The Tribunal cancelled Pollock's registration and could not envisage a time within which he would be considered able to apply for registration again. The Tribunal censured Pollock. No orders for costs were imposed, but the Tribunal directed that a summary of its decision should be published in Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. , New Zealand Nursing Review and the Nursing Council's newsletter. |
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