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A nurse has been was struck off for urging two dementia patients to kiss each other – and then laughing as the pair were filmed for Snapchat.

Paris Roberts, 23, “amused herself” by mocking the two dementia sufferers in the lounge of the care home in Cardiff Bay.

She urged the pair to kiss – and the 10 second recording was then posted on the social media app Snapchat.

Miss Roberts later quit the Atlantic View home which boasts the “highest quality care standards” and “very well trained and caring staff” when the video stunt was discovered.

"Acting for her own amusement"

Presenting officer Kathryn Duff told a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) hearing: “A female resident with dementia went over to a male resident, also with dementia, and Roberts encouraged them to kiss.”

Another healthcare assistant was with Miss Roberts when she asked the elderly pair to kiss – and they went on to kiss more than once.

Miss Duff said: “The recording was then posted on the social media app Snapchat and sent to another health care assistant.”

She said that during the episode Miss Roberts was “acting for her own amusement”.

“She was entrusted with the care of elderly and vulnerable residents and fell far, far short of the standard of care. It was misconduct of the most serious kind and she showed no remorse.”

Miss Roberts, from Adamsdown, Cardiff , resigned from the home soon afterwards.

She then went for an interview at another care home without telling them she was under investigation.

"She has shown no insight or remorse choosing to deflect the blame onto others"

A Nursing and Midwifery Council disciplinary hearing ruled that Miss Roberts was guilty of misconduct at the 48-room Atlantic View care home in Cardiff Bay.

Miss Roberts, who denied the allegations, did not attend the NMC Conduct and Competence Committee hearing in Cardiff.

Hearing chairman Martyn Griffiths said: “We considered that Miss Roberts’ conduct demonstrated a serious lapse in judgement in encouraging the patients to kiss and then allowing a colleague to make a recording which was then transmitted via a social media app.

“She failed to safeguard the patients and treat them with the dignity and respect they were entitled to.

“She was in a position of authority as the registered nurse and as the nurse in charge with the healthcare assistants being her junior colleagues.

“She had a responsibility to set an example, yet instead she used her authority in an attempt to cover up her part in the incident.

“She has shown no insight or remorse choosing to deflect the blame onto others.”

Miss Roberts was struck off the nursing register in “order to protect the public and satisfy the wider public interest.”