Nurse suspended after showing junior staff ‘sexy pictures from her phone’

A nurse in south London has been suspended after she forced her colleagues to look at pictures from her ‘sexy’ photoshoot.

Timea Buzas was working at St Nicholas vaccination centre in Sutton in December 2021 when she showed her colleagues the images.

A marshall at the centre told the fitness to practice hearing they were approached by Buzas in the staff area while they were with another colleague and asked if they wanted to see the photos.

Although both responded ‘no thanks’, Buzas showed them three photos on her phone, a report detailing the case read.

The report added: ‘The panel considered that [Buzas] showed Colleague B and Colleague C the images of yourself which were of a sexual nature, to illicit a reaction from them about the images.’

Both colleagues were ‘much more junior’ than Buzas, and there was no previous friendship, the Standard reports.

Days earlier, Buzas was also aggressive towards a patient, and even refused to provide them with a Covid-19 vaccine while working at Roehampton Vaccination Centre.

In a witness statement, the patient said Buzas ‘became hostile and confrontational’.

They said: ‘Ms Buzas appeared like they were readying herself for a fight, which was not what my fiancé or I desired.

‘Ms Buzas was walking aggressively (rocking their arms and stomping with speed) as they approached us, similar to how they were when they walked us to another area.

‘Ms Buzas was extremely curt, shaking my GP letter in my face and not providing any explanations at all.’

During the incident, Buzas had torn down posters from a nearby wall.

The patient statement added: ‘Ms Buzas stormed into the building, walking fast-paced and strutting into the building, although still within our view, and started to rip posters off of the wall so we thought that Ms Buzas was going to show us the posters to read.

‘My fiancé and I could not make out what the posters were and Ms Buzas did not give us the posters to read.’

Buzas also heard how Buzas shared her personal phone number with a patient under the age of 18 and messaged them with love hearts.

She was suspended for a further nine months have already been handed an interim suspension order of 18 months.

In mitigation she was described as ‘a caring and committed nurse who is capable and has demonstrated safe practice in the past’.

The panel also heard she had felt frustrated and regretted the incident at Roehampton Vaccination Centre.

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