A NURSE fondled an 88-year-old patient in a Gosport care home, a Nursing and Midwifery Council panel heard.

Carol Gonsalves, 35, indecently touched the half-naked man before shaking a toy monkey in his face and rubbing it on his stomach.
But the panel yesterday decided Gonsalves should not be struck off the nursing register. Instead, it gave her a caution which will be on her record for 18 months.
Panel chairman Liz Hewitt said: ‘We accept no real direct or indirect harm came to Resident A, even though the evidence demonstrated some shock on his part at the time.’
Gonsalves can continue working as a nurse although any new employer over the next 18 months will be told about her caution. Read more