A midwife could be struck off after being found guilty of a catalogue of mistakes including dropping a baby on its head and almost electrocuting a woman who was giving birth, it has been reported.
Diana Warwick, 56, used heart monitoring equipment that was plugged into the mains on a woman who was in a birthing pool, the Nursing and Midwifery Council heard.
She also "accidentally" dropped a baby while pushing it along in a cot, causing it to land face down.
Warwick was found guilt of 30 allegations of misconduct, which also included using a bed-bound patient's deodorant and polishing her shoes with body wipes, according to the Daily Mail.
The series of blunders occurred between May 2005 and April 2006 while Warwick was working at West Cumberland Hospital, near Whitehaven in Cumbria.
Warwick claimed she was distracted by her mother's illness at the time of the incidents, but the professional nurses body said the blunders were the result of "carelessness".
The midwife was also branded "tactless" and "thoughtless".
Andrew Coleman, NMC panel chairman, said: "We have heard that Miss Warwick was pushing a baby on its cot on a metal frame.
"As she approached a door she pulled the cot inside the metal frame and it slipped up and off the frame. Part of the cot fell on the floor and the baby fell flat down on its face.
"The panel accepts the cause of the accident was carelessness."
Warwick became a midwife in 1993 but took a lengthy break from her career and failed to take a return to practice course.
Speaking on behalf of the NMC at the fitness to practise hearing, Salim Hafejee said: "The failings go beyond simply the lack of clinical care.
"There were failures around attitude and understanding and of concepts of care. Tactlessness, thoughtlessness and carelessness are all words which would fit very well."
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