Male nurse’s ‘improper’ relationships  A married middle-aged
nurse started relationships with two young female nursing
students and told one he would leave his wife for her, a
misconduct hearing was told.  Christopher Conlin hugged, kissed
and stroked the first woman during a series of illicit meetings
in hospital supply cupboards, the hearing heard yesterday.  A
few months later he started a relationship with a second
21-year-old student and spent the night with her in the same
bed.  The Nursing and Midwifery Council heard the first student,
referred to as A, was being mentored by Conlin after being
threatened by a patient at the Brain Injury Rehabilitation
Trust’s York House in York.  “She will tell the panel that at
that at that time she felt quite vulnerable,” said Hannah
Stevenson for the NMC.  The woman, known only as Student A,
described the relationship as slow to develop, beginning with
flirtatious eye contact, before escalating.  Conlin told Student
A that he had been thinking about her and had aske