Nurse steals money from elderly patient with dementia

A Hamilton nurse who stole hundreds of dollars from a rest home patient has had her registration cancelled, ending her 44-year career. Eva Martha Harrison, 63, was a registered nurse at Te Puia Springs Hospital on the East Coast when the theft happened. The patient noticed a transaction at a grocery store to the total of $423.73. Nurse Harrison lied about taking the money but then disclosed she had used the patient's ATM card to pay her grocery bill.The ATM cards of patients, along with pin numbers written on paper, were in a locked cupboard, which Harrison had access to.She was fired from that job in July 2014, one month after the theft.