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Nurses ‘too busy’ to make sure patients eat properly-News-UK-Health-TimesOnline
Patients are at risk of malnutrition because of a shortage of nursing staff to feed them properly, a survey suggests.Almost half of the 2,000 nurses questioned by the Royal College of Nursing said that they did not have enough time to make sure that patients got their meals and were able to eat them because they were too busy.
Too busy doing what? What is more important for a nurse than keeping her charges alive? But this horrifying charge of nurse inattention is being brought to us by the Nurses Trade Union.
BBC NEWS | Health | Lack of nurses 'nutrition fear'
It is estimated malnutrition costs the NHS £7.3bn a year.Professor Alison Kitson, the RCN's executive director for nursing, said: "Nurses really do care deeply about this but to ensure that good patient nutrition happens, it needs to be a priority for everybody in the system from the catering staff through to chief executives.
"Only then will nurses be able to break through the obstacles and get the time and resources to ensure better patient care."
The RCN has launched its Nutrition Now campaign to raise awareness of the problem
I see now, the nurses are using the thought of starving patients in their campaign for more money and status.