Woman who provided bogus reference for husband cleared to practise again as nurse in UK

Senior nurse Catalina Puiu was a home manager at Cherryvalley nursing home in east Belfast when she supplied an online reference for her husband to an agency. (stock image)

Stephen Gordon

A former nursing home manager who provided a false reference for her husband is to be allowed to practise as a nurse again in the UK after a 12-month suspension is complete.

Catalina Puiu, now a director of nursing at a Co Dublin residential home, said she lives with the “shame and regret” of her actions while she was a manager at Cherryvalley nursing home in east Belfast.