Die Krankenschwester von Agentur berichtet Kollegin, weil er Patienten mit geistiger Behinderung Wasser aufgießt, informiert andere Mitarbeiter bei Schichtwechsel, die der Vorfall aufgetreten war, und musste sich dann gegenüber dem ursprünglichen Mitarbeiter entschuldigen, weil er gegen ihre Privatsphäre verstoßen hat!
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2025/08/06/agency-nurses-two-complaints-alleging-penalisation-rejected-by-labour-court/
Von mrianj
7 Kommentare
Main article is about their court case alleging penalisation for reporting the event. Relevant quotes:
>At the Labour Court hearing, the HSE acknowledged the incident Mr Foy witnessed in April 2020, which was the pouring of a cup of water over a patient by a female colleague who was directly employed at the facility, amounted to an assault.
>It said he followed all the correct procedures in the way he reported the incident to management, but **breached GDPR guidelines by also reporting it to two other colleagues coming on duty at the end of his shift.**
[…]
>He began to get fewer hours, however, and fewer premium shifts. He said he was told this was in part because the colleague he reported, who had been moved to a different area of the facility but was employed there, said she did not want him rostered to work with her and this was facilitated by senior management
[…]
>He was, he told the court, **pressured to apologise for the privacy breach to the staff member he had reported** and, fearing he would lose more work, had to agree to undertake GDPR training.
So, asshole staff member pours water over a patient with an intellectual disability, and the whistleblower is forced to apologise for breaching *their* privacy by telling other staff members about the event? What the actual fuck.
Now that would boil your piss.
Pure dystopia. That poor patient, and the person trying to help is punished.
The article is blocked for me but I presume the employee did the right thing originally by reporting the incident appropriately? Then undid the good work by telling their colleagues about it? Yeah, that would be a problem unfortunately
This has nothing to do with the GDPR. HSE is a joke as usual. Can do nothing right.
There are two separate issues here and I can see how this happened.
(1) He absolutely did the right thing by reporting the incident through the correct channel, and for this he should be supported and lauded.
(2) He fucked up by telling his colleagues about it on shift change after reporting it.
In doing this he likely impacted the investigation into his colleague. There are good reasons why investigations are carried out in as much privacy as possible to protect all involved until the investigation is complete and a decision reached. The breach likely weakened the case for sanctioning the accused.
Had he rocked up to the break room before reporting it and, described what he saw and asked his colleagues for advice on what he should do, then he reported it on their advice, he would have not had an issue to answer. But once the report was made, he and the accused and investigators were all bound by the rules of the process and the „laws of natural justice“.
When are we going to fix this? What can we actually do
Besides waiting for AI to completely take over healthcare and compliance