A NURSE who put residents of a Knutsford nursing home at risk has been struck off.

Christine Malapitan, who worked at Sharston House nursing home on Manor Park South, had been accused of faking the medical records of elderly diabetic sufferers, at a disciplinary hearing of the Nursing and Midwifery Council in London.

The hearing decided that Malapitan's actions were significant departures from the standards expected of a registered nurse and that such serious breaches of the fundamental tenets of the profession were incompatible with her remaining on its register.

The panel said: "In light of the seriousness of her misconduct including her dishonesty, to allow her to continue practising would undermine public confidence in the profession."

The hearing had earlier been told that Malapitan, who worked at the home between March and June 2012, had risked residents getting blood contamination after using the same machines on each of them.

A former colleague Lindsay Noden told the hearing that Malapitan's behaviour had been 'deceitful' after she had claimed to a resident she had seen a video on how to change a colostomy bag, which subsequently turned out to be a lie.

She also lied to a nurse manager in June of that year after claiming she had checked a blood sugar when it had not.

An audit by the home found that a total of 34 readings recorded by Malapitan on three residents in the written records were not found on any of the machines she had used.

Giving evidence Malapitan denied the charge of falsifying the records and one charge of failing to use glucose machines to check blood sugar levels

She also denied the version of events put forward by the council, claiming that she had never received any training on how to use a diabetic monitoring machine

Summing up the council added: "This order will mark the importance of maintaining public confidence in the profession and send to the public and the profession a clear message about the standard of behaviour required of a registered nurse."