A RACIST nurse who told a black colleague she needed a good wash has been barred from working as a medic.
Carol Allan bombarded the nurse with racist slurs, ridiculed colleagues and abused elderly patients at her Castletown care home.
But yesterday the mum-of-three was struck off by the Nursing and Midwifery Council for her "humiliating" and "callous" b
ehaviour.
A hearing had heard how Allan, 58, called South African nurse Patsy Mamba a black b*****d and said she needed a good wash.
The former deputy matron called care assistants "thick" and humiliated dyslexic care worker Anita Hunter by asking if she was stupid.
Another nurse, Elaine Mason, resigned because she could not work in such an atmosphere.
Allan also reduced a patient in a wheelchair to tears by moving her to a deserted room, which had been closed for redecoration, because she was noisy.
The former Army nurse, from Hetton, made the comments while working at Lansbury Court Care Home, in Castletown, Sunderland, between October 2002 and September 2003.
Steve Gibbons, defending, told the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) that Allan had been going through a traumatic break-up with her partner who had mentally abused her.
But she was struck off the nursing register at a hearing in London yesterday.
Chairman Nancy Kirkland said: "We accept you were going through a difficult period in your life.
"You demonstrated unacceptable treatment of others, both colleagues and patients.
"Your behaviour was detrimental to patients A and B who were vulnerable and elderly.
"Your behaviour to colleagues was belittling, humiliating and callous."
Mr Gibbons said, at the time, she had to leave an abusive relationship and be re-housed.
Mr Gibbons also said Allan was supporting one of her three daughters who also had three children and was going through a divorce.
He said she had been criticised for her racism and had taken a course to gain insight into her actions.
Earlier, fellow nurse Elaine Mason had told the panel she resigned because of the atmosphere.
She said Allan would call Miss Mamba a "black b*****d".
She said: "Another time I heard her with a resident say 'don't be frightened, she's just a dirty s**t who needs a wash'."
After Allan was dismissed by Lansbury Court, she worked for South Tyneside Trust from March 2004 until January 2005.
But she was sacked for failing to disclose why she left her previous employment and that NMC proceedings were under way.
