A nurse stripped an elderly woman naked in full view of other patients, a misconduct hearing was told. Memory Musekiwa, 35, from Walsall, allegedly shouted at the pensioner after she wet herself at Worcester Royal Hospital.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council was told that the elderly woman “cried and cried” following her treatment by the nurse. Musekiwa allegedly went to get a mop and bucket after taking the nightdress off the pensioner. Salim Hafejee, for the NMC, said: “Patient A had wet herself.

“The nurse shouted at her, then stripped her naked and left her standing there with no curtain around her.

“She then pushed Patient A on to a commode and told her to stay there while she went to get a mop.

“When Patient A asked to be washed, she refused and put a clean nightdress on her. She failed to appropriately deal with a patient who found herself in a situation where she could not help herself. She did not protect this patient’s dignity.”

Witness Julie Owen was a patient on the ward that night and sobbed as she told the panel how she was woken by Patient A, who was in her 70s, asking for help. She said she heard the nurse telling the patient off.

“Then she took Patient A’s nightdress and underwear off and left her standing there while she went to went to fetch a mop and bucket,” Miss Owen said.

“At no point were the curtains put around her. Her dignity was completely stripped. There was no delicacy. No bowl was brought to wash Patient A with.

“She had wet herself and the nurse was putting clean clothes on an unclean body. I clearly heard Patient A say to her, ‘don’t be so brutal’.

“After the nurse had gone Patient A sat on her bed and cried and cried.”

Miss Owen made a complaint the next day.

Musekiwa admits stripping Patient A naked without closing the curtains in the early hours of November 12, 2007, but denies shouting at Patient A, failing to promote her dignity, pushing her on to a commode and refusing to wash her.