Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — substantive hearing
NMC panel suspends nurse Bernadett Kemenes for three months over insulin error and dishonesty
A Nursing and Midwifery Council panel has suspended adult nurse Bernadett Kiralyne Kemenes for three months after finding she gave a care home resident 32 units of insulin instead of the prescribed eight and dishonestly amended the medication record to conceal the error.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 16 June 2026 · Updated 8 July 2026
Suspension (suspended from practice) — 3 months
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Concerning Bernadett Kiralyne Kemenes, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 09H0041C).
Decision date: 16 June 2026 · Hearing started 10 June 2026 and ended 16 June 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Bernadett Kiralyne Kemenes, an adult nurse working in Scottish care homes, made repeated medication errors between October 2022 and June 2023, including giving a resident 32 units of insulin instead of the prescribed 8, and dishonestly amended the resident's medication records to conceal the error. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired and suspended her for three months, with an interim conditions of practice order until the suspension takes effect.
Charges
That you, a registered nurse: (1) on 28 October 2022 gave Resident E a dose of Tolterodine in the morning and at lunch time instead of in the morning and evening as prescribed; (2) on 5 February 2023 (a) did not administer prescribed antibiotics to Resident B, (b) administered one cap of Isosorbide to Resident D rather than two as required, (c) did not administer prescribed prednisolone to Resident D, (d) did not administer prescribed memantine to Resident F; (3) on or around 17 June 2023 (a) gave Resident A 32 units of insulin instead of 8 units as prescribed, (b) retrospectively amended Resident A's medication records, (c) your actions at 3b were dishonest in that you were attempting to conceal that you had made a medication error. Charges 1, 2b, 2c, 2d, 3a, 3b and 3c were found proved; charge 2a was found not proved.
Findings
The panel found charge 1 proved but not sufficiently serious to amount to misconduct. The medication errors in charges 2b, 2c, 2d and 3a and the dishonest retrospective amendment of Resident A's medication records (charges 3b and 3c) amounted to misconduct. Resident A suffered actual harm from the insulin overdose. The panel found fitness to practise impaired on public protection grounds in relation to the medication errors and on public interest grounds in relation to the dishonesty, which it considered a one-off, spontaneous incident out of character and unlikely to be repeated. An 18-month interim conditions of practice order applies until the suspension takes effect.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
No evidence of any other concerns; early admissions to some of the facts; some evidence of insight; personal mitigation (details private).
Aggravating factors
Conduct which caused a resident to suffer actual harm; conduct which had the potential of putting people at unwarranted risk of suffering harm; a pattern of repeated medication errors.
Source
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