A BLUNDERING nurse whose incompetence put patients' lives at risk has been suspended from practice for 18 months.
Tennyson Lansana, 55, put patients at risk of overdose because he was so slow on his drugs round at the Princess Royal University Hospital, Farnborough.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council heard Lansana made blunders between August 2004 and May 2005 while working at the hospital.
These included ignoring a urine soaked patient while he went to answer the phone.
He regularly failed to make sure patients had taken their pills and once turned a patient's oxygen mask up to four times the prescribed level, the panel heard.
Lansana, of Thornton Heath was suspended from his job on November 23 after being charged with failing to demonstrate required standards.
Chairman of the panel Rachel O'Connell said: "Lansana demonstrated a serious lack of competence which posed a risk to the public."
In a statement which was read to the panel in mitigation, Lansana said his actions had not lead to any fatality or injury of a patient.
Lansana is no longer working as a nurse.
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