According to the Times, a male nurse caught a student's breast and stroked her vaginal while demonstrating how to perform a head-to-toe assessment of the patient. Later, the nurse said she could "sit on his face." Authorities say the male nurse's license was revoked for two months.
It is reported that a female patient at the Royal Melbourne Hospital intensive Care Unit in the state of unconscious. The man touched the patient's breast. The nurse recently stood before the tribunal for negligence.
The Australian Council of Nurses and Midwives took Alfredo Crocetti to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal for two incidents. It is reported that the two incidents occurred in 2012 and 2014, respectively.
In 2014, while teaching emergency care at the University of Victoria, Crocetti stretched his hand improperly into a student's underwear, caressing and squeezing the student's breast. The matter caught the attention of the departments concerned.
In presenting a head-to-toe assessment of the patient, the tribunal learned that Crocetti stroked her hand down the outside of the woman's thigh and then touched the woman's inner thigh and vaginal.
Crocetti also took off his T-shirt to allow students to touch his body and said it was part of a physical assessment, adding that "you can sit on my face if you like," when another student was present.
The Director of Education, School of Health and Biopharmaceutical, University of Victoria, first raised the issue with the Australian Health Practitioners Regulatory Agency.
The follow-up investigation also led to problems in 2012. Crocetti's late shift in the Royal Melbourne Hospital intensive Care Unit was worrisome.
The tribunal learned that Crocetti placed the sheets on the patient's waist and his hand on the coma patient's breast. There is no medical basis for such contact.
Members of the tribunal held that Crocetti's actions violated the patient's trust in nurse. " He did not protect the patient's dignity, nor was he aware of the patient's vulnerability and weakness. The patient was even in a coma. It's also troubling other nurse. "
Crocetti's conduct at the University of Victoria is also a violation of the authority and trust of the position.
"he lacks respect for his students and disregards the important role of this position."
Crocetti endorses the statement of fact submitted to the arbitral tribunal. At first, he said, what happened in the ICU was two years ago. The Royal Melbourne Hospital has already dealt with the matter.
It is reported that after two months, Crocetti will not have any face-to-face contact with patients for four months. He was also banned from teaching for a year.
Prior to the resumption of contact with the patient, Crocetti had to receive 4 hours of education, the subject being a "Identify and maintain a career limit". Crocetti started in 1990 as a registered nurse, working at North Melbourne.