Allen v. North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services

BIGGS, Judge.

This appeal arises out of the entry of a finding of abuse of a patient by petitioner (Nancy Allen) a certified nurse aide, in the Nurse *79Aide Registry and the Health Care Personnel Registry. The evidence tends to show that petitioner and Misty Gray, another nurse aide, were transferring a nursing home resident, M.M., (the resident’s initials are used in this opinion to preserve her right to privacy under N.C.G.S. § § 131D-2(b)(4) and -21(6)), from her wheelchair to a shower chair for a bath, when M.M. became combative and hit petitioner on the hand. After the transfer was made,…