He told staff Owen would “regularly push medication into his mouth”.

In a statement given before he died, Resident E wrote: “I said I’d bite her fingers if she carried on shoving tablets down my mouth.”

Owen submitted statements to the hearing denying the charges but did not attend.

In its ruling, the panel said it had: “Considered that Mrs Owen’s conduct had impacted multiple residents of varying ages and vulnerabilities across residential and nursing care settings on different occasions.

“It bore in mind that it had found a pattern of behaviour concerning Mrs Owen’s approach to medication administration, which calls into question whether she can practise kindly, safely and professionally.”

It deciding on sanction, it described Owen’s behaviour as evidence of “harmful deep-seated attitudinal problems” and said she posed a “significant risk” of repeating it.