Catherine Hudson has told a jury she showed “nothing but care and devotion” to stroke unit patients and their families.
A Blackpool nurse who denied drugging patients 'for her own amusement', while apologising for texts sent to colleagues saying she 'sedated one patient to within an inch of her life', has denied claims she is a "complete fraud".
She has told jurors that for years the unit was understaffed to a “completely dangerous level” and that medication was “scattered around” and freely available. Hudson added the “whole ward was corrupt” and that “95% of the staff” would take medication from the unit. Mr Wright said: “Is the truth here, Miss Hudson, on and each every occasion since your day of arrest you have tried to minimise your guilt?”
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