A registered nurse has been reprimanded and banned for 12 months over a violent altercation with a psychiatric patient at Joondalup Health Campus in northern Perth. Brian Roha Smith, who had been a mental health nurse for 30 years, held the 29-year-old patient around the neck and poked him in the eye after the two men fell to the ground in a room of the Mental Health Unit in April 2014. The incident was observed by other staff and the Nursing and Midwifery Board took Mr Smith to the State Administrative Tribunal (SAT) where he admitted he had engaged in “professional misconduct”.
