The royal commission into aged care has heard of the shocking treatment of an elderly patient given Panadol despite suffering ongoing pain from a severe genital wound.
Details of the man's condition were given on Wednesday by counsel assisting Paul Bolster as he read information provided by an agency nurse sent to an unnamed aged care facility.
The nurse told how the man could not speak after suffering a stroke yet his GP had not been informed of his injury and pain caused by a urinary catheter.
"I am still horrified to this day," the nurse said, instigating an urgent review of the man's case.
The nurse said "I am blown away" that staff had not reported the development of the man's wound.
"More educated staff had not looked at the source of his pain," the nurse said.
Mr Bolster described the man's case as extreme but said it was an example of how things can fall down.
Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation national secretary Annie Butler said such problems should be picked up and properly managed at staff handovers.
But she said members were telling the federation handover was an area of great concern amid high workloads.
"It's one of the areas that tends to get missed and sometimes it's not even allowed," she said.
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