Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — substantive hearing
NMC panel suspends nurse Rashida John for three months over falsified observations
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has suspended nurse Rashida John for three months after a panel found she recorded observations for six nursing home residents that she had not taken during a night shift, and was dishonest in doing so.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 30 April 2026 · Updated 11 July 2026
Suspension (suspended from practice) — 3 months
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Concerning Rashida John, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 06L0111O).
Decision date: 30 April 2026 · Hearing started 27 April 2026 and ended 30 April 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Rashida John failed to check the blood pressure, pulse, temperature and oxygen saturations of six care home residents during a night shift, recorded observations she had not taken, and acted dishonestly in doing so. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired on public interest grounds only and imposed a three-month suspension order with a review.
Charges
That, on the night shift commencing 28 June 2023 while employed at Oxford House Nursing Home, in relation to six residents, she failed to check blood pressure, pulse, temperature and oxygen saturations, and inaccurately recorded those observations; and that her conduct was dishonest in that she knew she had not conducted the observations and intended to mislead anyone reading the resident records to believe that she had. All charges were found proved by way of her admissions.
Findings
The panel found the conduct amounted to misconduct, breaching the Code's record-keeping and professional-standards requirements. It found the dishonesty was at the lower end of the seriousness spectrum, that the clinical concerns had been remediated, and that the risk of repetition was low, so fitness to practise was impaired on public interest grounds only. It imposed a three-month suspension order with a review before expiry. No interim order was made.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
Full admission of the facts, albeit made at a later stage; sufficient insight shown in respect of the clinical concerns, yet developing insight in respect of dishonesty.
Aggravating factors
Misconduct related to dishonesty in a clinical setting, indicating some attitudinal concern.
Source
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