A CHILD was left convulsing and struggling to breathe for three minutes at a Glasgow hospital before a nurse intervened, an inquiry will be told.

Bisrat Wubalem, a former nurse at Yorkhill Hospital, faces being struck off if seven charges of misconduct are upheld against her next month.

She is alleged to have left the child fitting for three minutes before calling for help.

The child, who has not been identified, had started to turn blue from lack of oxygen after suffering a febrile seizure.

And when Ms Wubalem alerted a senior nurse, she is alleged to have failed to have noticed that an oxygen mask she had placed over his face was not connected to an oxygen point.

The hearing papers state that she failed to seek help despite a nursing support worker telling her that assistance was required.

The child suffered a seizure on May 15 2014 at around 8.20am at Yorkhill Hospital in ward 4a, when she was employed by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde as a Band 5 staff nurse.

Febrile seizures are seizures or convulsions that occur in young children and are triggered by fever.

Young children between the ages of about 6 months and 5 years old are the most likely to experience the seizures and this risk peaks during the second year of life.

Most often during a febrile seizure, a child will lose consciousness and both arms and legs will shake uncontrollably.

Sometimes during a febrile seizure, a child may lose consciousness but will not noticeably shake or move.

The nurse graduated from Glasgow Caledonian University in 2013 and started working at Yorkhill Hospital that year.

Another charge states that she administered a saline flush to a child which was not properly sterilised.

Ms Wubalem is due to appear before the Nursing and Midwifery Council on April 25.

Yorkhill Hospital closed in June last year and patients are now treated at the new Royal Hospital for Sick Children, part of the new Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus.

In a separate case a nurse is facing a string of abuse charges at two West of Scotland care homes.

Alison Cochrane is alleged to have failed to call an ambulance for a stricken OAP and forced another resident to take their medication.

The most serious complaint involved an elderly resident who became unwell at Queens Care Home in Prestwick.

The complaint alleges that the nurse didn’t bother to assess the pensioner or put them in the recovery position and failed to dial 999.

It is alleged that vital information she passed on to the NHS 24/ ADOC helplines was incorrect or misleading which led to a delay in the resident getting access to vital help from emergency services.

Ms Cochrane is also facing charges of abuse while she worked as a staff nurse at Fairknowe House Nursing Home in Maybole between August 2009 and July 2013:

It is alleged she left medication for residents to self-administer and lied about the incident.

She is due to appear before the NMC on April 4.