Scottish Training-And An Adversion To The Elderly

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COLIN Norris enrolled in a higher diploma in nursing at Dundee University, right, in September 1998 and graduated in June 2001, the trial heard.

Robert Smith, QC, for the prosecution, said: “Staff nurse Colin Norris was not always happy with working with the care of the elderly.”

The defendant had been sent on a placement to a ward at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Dundee, which specialised in the care for the elderly.

He told his nursing tutor “he hated his placement and missed part of the attachment through unauthorised absence”, Mr Smith said.

Later, Norris missed 11 days of a placement at a Dundee nursing home.

Mr Smith told the jury: “He was extremely unhappy about it. He didn’t like geriatric patients. He liked the trauma work because of the excitement of it all.”

The court was also told that, while at Dundee University, Norris attended lectures on diabetes and the use and dangers of insulin.

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