Nurse and her steamy novel: a cautionary tale

A DISTRICT nurse who sold patients her book containing a steamy tale of a health visitor bedding a dying patient before killing him has been let off with a caution.

The punishment came after author Kathleen Pugh told the Nursing and Midwifery Council panel she no longer wanted to be a nurse.

The panel suggested suspension or striking her off the nursing register would be disproportionate, and that the nurse’s wrongdoing was at the lower end of the scale and didn’t relate to her nursing competence.

Pugh (53), of Chadderton Hall Road, Chadderton, wrote a short story, “Angel with Black Wings”, about a nurse seducing a terminally-ill man before administering a lethal injection.

One patient who bought the book from Pugh said she was disgusted by the story.

The panel heard Pugh regards writing as a hobby; when questioned she said she failed to see how her stories conflicted with work as a district nurse.

The panel imposed a three-year caution on her record.