The nurse, Mark Lester Ordonez, admitted to a fitness-to-practise inquiry of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland that he had “crossed the line” in his interactions with the 18-year-old girl when she attended Beaumont Hospital in 2023.

Since December 2019 the increase in staff numbers has been 26,000 WTE or up by 21.8 per cent.

The inquiry heard that the nurse, Patricia Lloyd, had also not informed the resident’s family, his GP and his occupational therapist as well as her own managers about the incident in which he fell while going to the toilet.

The nurse admitted to removing drugs from a hospital storage cabinet on four dates in May 2018.