Nurse Violetta Aylward, who was working for the ‘NHS’ was caught on film as she accidentally turned off her patient’s life support, after he had installed cameras to monitor his care, since he was concerned that he was not receiving the best treatment.
Jamie Merrett is a thirty-seven year old tetraplegic who was paralyzed from the neck down in a car accident in 2002. A very intelligent man, according to family members, he had recently became concerned with the care he was receiving and had bedside cameras installed in his home, so that his nurses could be monitored.
Within just a few days, Nurse Violetta Aylward was captured on video the very moment which she switched off Jamie’s ventilator, and does not seem to realize the seriousness of what she has done until another woman asks her “What have you done?” and the two quickly struggle to save his life.
Jamie was left brain damaged, after it took paramedics 21 minutes to gt his life support back on. His sister, Karen Reynolds said that despite his paralysis, he was able to talk, use a wheelchair, and operate his computer with voice technology. She is now considering legal action since she states that his level of understanding is now that of a child.
“His life is completely changed. He doesn’t have a life now. He has an existence but it’s nowhere near what it was before. He is very brain damaged compared to what he was before. He was a highly intelligent man and you could have long in-depth conversations with him and now it tends to be more simplistic.”
Karen also stated that the reason for his actions in having the cameras installed was that he had become more and more worried about vital mistakes which had been made by his nursing staff on the operations of his ventilator, but she states that the health care bosses did nothing in response to his continued requests for help.
A solicitor for Jamie, Seamus Edney stated, “In my experience, this is the worst case of negligence on the part of a nurse. No-one has come forward to make any admission, so now almost two years after the event we are trying to get someone to admit liability for what has happened.”
Ambition24, which is the nursing agency which sent nurse Aylward was said to have been fully aware that they were required to supply a nurse which had full training on the use of a ventilator, but that they did not have the adequate systems in place to find out if their nurses were indeed trained properly, according to the BBC.
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