A nurse has been struck off after writing a vile post on Facebook referring to colleagues as "monkeys".
Rhoda Tagle said she found it "difficult" to work with other people who "came from the mountains and jungles". One of her workmates deemed the post "extremely racist".
The nurse worked at Worcester Royal Hospital's Trauma and Orthopaedics ward at the time of the post. People on her friends list saw the outrageous comment, including some of the people she worked with.
The January 16, 2022 post read: "It is so difficult to work with people who came from the Mountains & Jungles..! Absolutely they do not have Manners..! Upset.! Thanks Mi Amiga you are really very supportive..!!
"Never forgotten our sweet memories..! I won’t ruin my beauty because of those monkeys..! yes true but simtimes (sic) iy’s too much.. their colors speaks who they are..! ..! what a shame..!"
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The comments came as a shock to one of her colleagues, identified as Ms 1 by the Nursing and Midwifery Council Fitness to Practise Committee. She said: "When I saw Rhoda’s Facebook post and comments, I was shocked because this behaviour didn’t tally with what I knew of her.
"I found the post and comments to be extremely racist. Rhoda’s initial post stated: 'It is so difficult to work with people who came from the Mountains & Jungles..! Absolutely they do not have Manners..! Upset.!'
"This seems to imply that the post and comments were prompted by something that happened at work. I’m not sure what this was; however, I had been made aware of an argument between Rhoda and another nurse that had taken place during the shift Rhoda worked prior to posting on Facebook.
"I believe she posted on Facebook within an hour of this shift ending. I don’t know whether the argument had anything to do with the posts but the posts followed the argument timewise. I wasn’t present for the argument so I don’t know whether it was racially motivated. I can’t remember what the argument was about or who it was with."
The committee noted that Mrs Tagle reportedly denied that her post was motivated by anyone at her workplace. She told Ms 1: "[…] Am so Sorry.. but my post is not against T&O pr work related.. Sorry for the trouble..!! […]"
Following a meeting on May 28 and 29, the panel decided to bar Mrs Tagle from the nursing profession. They stated: "Balancing all of these factors and after taking into account all the evidence before it during this case, the panel determined that the appropriate and proportionate sanction is that of a striking-off order.
"Having regard to the matters it identified, in particular the effect of Mrs Tagle’s actions in bringing the profession into disrepute by adversely affecting the public’s view of how a registered nurse should conduct herself, the panel has concluded that nothing short of this would be sufficient in this case."
The panel concluded the ‘appropriate and proportionate sanction’ was for Tagle to be struck off, preventing her from working as a registered nurse.
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