A NURSE has been struck off after failing to try to resuscitate a woman who collapsed at a Bingley care home then lying about it.

Yewande Oduwole was working at Duchess Gardens care home in January last year, when the woman collapsed and died.

At the time she told the paramedic who attended that she had begun resuscitation and also told a later investigation that she had "commenced six compressions".

But this was contradicted by evidence from healthcare assistants who had sounded the alarm - and by her own notes from the time.

One health care assistant stated that she never left the resident's side throughout the incident and that she did not witness Ms Oduwole commence CPR at any time.

Ms Oduwole admitted failing to carry out adequate CPR, but not that she had failed to carry out any at all. She also denied telling the health care assistants not to.

Following a five-day hearing in London the Nursing and Midwifery Council concluded that Ms Oduwole had failed to carry out any CPR, instructed the health care assistants not to carry out CPR, and informed the paramedic that she had commenced CPR when she had not.

In addition they found that her conduct in misinforming the paramedic was dishonest and that she intended to mislead.

The misconduct hearing was told that on January 27, 2014, Ms Oduwole was the only nurse at the home on the night shift and was called to the residential unit to deal with an incident.

A female resident had become unwell and the emergency bell was pressed. After checking her file and discovering that there was no Do Not Resuscitate order in place, she simply called the emergency services.

But she should have continuously carried out CPR until the paramedic arrived, according to the NMC investigator, herself a registered nurse.

The panel gave weight to a contemporaneous note made by Ms Oduwole shortly after the incident which makes no mention of her starting CPR.

During the home's investigation Ms Oduwole denied the allegation and it emerged that she had not received the home's CPR training. She resigned shortly after.

One of the health care assistants said in a statement to the hearing: "I felt very uncomfortable throughout the whole process. I felt that the registrant did not take the situation as an emergency, she was very slow and she did not allow us to conduct CPR on the resident."

Striking her off the register, the Nursing and Midwifery Council's findings stated: "The panel was of the view that your conduct was in breach of the fundamental tenets of the profession and constituted a serious departure from the standards expected of a registered nurse found in the Code.

"You failed to provide the necessary medical attention to a person who was in peril and have deliberately communicated misleading information to another healthcare professional in an emergency situation. This was a serious dereliction of your duty towards your patient as a nurse.

"Honesty and integrity is at the core of the nursing profession and the panel note that your misconduct, in this regard, is serious. Your dishonest behaviour has breached a fundamental tenet of nursing and brought the reputation of the profession into disrepute."

Other charges relating to Ms Oduwole not informing nursing agencies where she worked that she was subject to a fitness to practice investigation by the professional regulatory body, were not proved.

The home itself was found to be inadequate earlier this year by the health watchdog, the Care Quality Commission, which said residents had been let down by the company running it, Elder Homes Bradford Ltd.

It followed surprise visits in January and February this year, when 54 people were being cared for.

No-one at Elder Homes was able to comment to the Telegraph & Argus about the NMC's verdict.