Nurse left starving patient in his own mess

A nurse who left a patient starving and covered in his own excrement has been thrown out of the profession. Leanne Rendall, who worked for Livingston Care Home in Scotland, did not bother to change the vulnerable patient when she found him trapped in his own filth. Then, on Valentine’s Day 2013, she did not bother to feed or offer the patient a drink despite his desperate state. Rendall appeared before the Nursing and Midwifery Council after an 18-month period…