From my experience I can tell you that the not feeding of patients applies to patients that are not unconscious as well. I used to volunteer in the hospital, going around the geriatric ward. There were patients who would sit there with untouched meal trays because they were unable to feed themselves. Although most nurses were nice people, many of them did not have the time to feed all of their patients before the trays were collected again. Some patients could even mostly feed themselves, they just needed help opening packages and moving the tray closer to themselves. I did encounter some nurses who did not care about their patients at all. I once alerted a nurse that something was wrong with a patient, and she just laughed me off and stayed at her station. Another thing I learnt from my experience as a volunteer was that bad nurses flip their name tags that you should have to ask them their name.
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