A NURSE failed to check on a dying patient for five hours and told the family he was alive after he had passed away, it is claimed.
Darren Diplexcito admits telling the family by phone the patient was "unsettled" after he had died in May 2011. The 29-year-old also admits that when the family arrived at the hospital he falsely claimed the patient had died minutes earlier.
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