Lazy nurse's error kills baby 
Sleeping on the job: Louisa Swinburn is pictured with her eyes closed next to baby Samuel McIntosh.
A United Kingdom's nurse's error has killed a baby and a Facebook picture has got her sacked, according to the Daily Mail.
Grieving parents Sarah and Rob McIntosh
The nurse gave a baby a lethal dose of salt and uploaded a picture on her Facebook page showing her snoozing beside the baby's cot.
This was 11 days before her fatal error.
The baby was accidentally given a fatal dose of salt by the National Heath Service worker.
Four-month-old Samuel McIntosh suffered damage to his brain after Louisa and colleague Karen Thomas - both experienced nurses - gave him ten times the prescribed dose of sodium chloride in an infusion.
After seeing the Facebook photo, Sam's distraught mother Sarah blasted: "It's no wonder my son ended up in a coffin with someone like her looking after him. It shows she just doesn't care."
Shockingly, Queen's Medical Centre, where Swinburn was employed, knew about the picture the day before Sam's death, according to his parents.
The tragic baby's father Rob told the News of the World: 'It begs the question that if the hospital had pulled her off duty when they first discovered the photo, would our son still be alive?'
Swinburn was initially allowed back to work after a Nottingham University Hospital Trust investigation accepted her claim that it was an accident.
But she was later sacked after seeing evidence of the Facebook picture.
At the inquest the nurses insisted that they could not remember what had happened on the high dependency ward at the Nottingham hospital last year where the baby, born at 24 weeks, was being treated.
Neither apologised to the family for the blunder.
After the inquest, Mrs McIntosh found that Swinburn was posting messages on Facebook about what had happened, asking friends to ‘wish me luck’ in the inquiry.
The day she was allowed back to work after her first suspension, she posted: "(Louisa) Has had a fantastic day! Is goin 2 treat herself 2 bottle wine!"
The family confronted hospital officials, who admitted knowing of the posts. They said they had not told the family to avoid causing ‘distress’.
Swinburn and Thomas's future as nurses will be decided at a Nursing and Midwifery Council hearing next year.
Source: Daily Mail
Published Dec 28 2010
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