Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — substantive hearing
Erasure (struck off the register)
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Being struck off (the regulator calls this "erasure") removes the practitioner from the register. They are no longer permitted to practise this profession in the UK. Erasure can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but is otherwise indefinite.
Concerning Zdzislaw Jozef Reterski, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 06K0048C).
Decision date: 15 April 2026 · Hearing started 13 April 2026 and ended 15 April 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Zdzislaw Reterski, a registered nurse, slept on duty at one care home and falsified records to show he had given morning medications and made entries when he was not on duty. At a second care home, he failed to give prescribed medications to several residents on specified dates. The panel found his conduct dishonest and amounted to misconduct, that his fitness to practise was impaired, and ordered him to be struck off the register, with an 18-month interim suspension order.
Charges
While working as a registered nurse at Windyridge Care Home on or around 25 June 2020, Mr Reterski made entries in the daily records of one or more residents timed between 04:00 and 06:30 when he was not on duty; signed to indicate he had administered morning medications when he was not on duty at the times the medications were due; and slept whilst on duty. His conduct in falsifying entries was admitted as dishonest. While working at Cedar Care Home between 17 July and 24 August 2020, he failed to administer prescribed medications (Omeprazole, Senna, Donepezil and Mirtazapine) to five named residents on specified dates, and failed to administer or record the administration of Memantine to a sixth resident. The panel found a further allegation of dishonesty in respect of the Cedar charges not proved.
Findings
The panel found Charges 1, 2, 3a (i-v), 3b(i), 3c and 3d proved and Charges 3b(ii), 4a and 4b not proved. It found that Charges 1, 2, 3a and 3b(i) amounted to misconduct, including sleeping while in sole charge of a care home with junior staff, deliberate falsification of patient records linked to patient care and admitted dishonesty. Charges 3c and 3d were found not to amount to misconduct as they were considered isolated medication-round errors. The panel found Mr Reterski's fitness to practise currently impaired on both public protection and public interest grounds, noting no recent training, no engagement, no remorse, no insight and a real risk of repetition.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
Some admission of the facts.
Aggravating factors
Conduct which deliberately or recklessly puts people receiving care at risk of suffering harm; deliberate breaches of the Code; a pattern of misconduct over a period of some months; failure to attend hearings or to engage in the Fitness to Practise process without good reason; absence of insight; vulnerability of the residents receiving care; premeditated behaviour.
Source
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