A suspended nurse walked into her old ward and sold private care services to an elderly patient, a hearing was told. Nicola Koller was being investigated for “lack of competence” when she entered the Edinburgh hospital and told colleagues she was just visiting a friend. But Ms Koller, according to witnesses, gave a widowed patient a leaflet and business card offering services as a private registered nurse. And once the patient had been discharged from ward 72 at the Western General, Ms Koller charged him around £170-a-night as a registered nurse, despite her suspension. The nurse appeared in front of a disciplinary panel of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) in Edinburgh this week. She is accused of selling services as a private nurse in April 2015 following suspension two months earlier. Ms Koller, who is believed to be 63 and live in Edinburgh, denies the charges and claims that she was misunderstood and that the leaflet was in circulation before she was suspended.
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