Nurturing and nourishing: the nurses’ role in nutritional care

Abstract

This policy provides a framework to define and invigorate nursing's role in supporting the patient's nutrition care.

Nutrition knowledge, attitudes and practices among healthcare workers in management of chronic kidney diseases in selected hospitals in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; a cross-sectional study

“…Another reason could be that the doctors use their clinical judgement and therefore abandon the nutrition assessment tools [21]. In addition, nurses assume that nutritional assessment is not part of their role, the fact which has been discussed recently [22].…”

“…This may facilitate positive changes in their attitudes toward nutrition care and thus in their behaviour [19,20]. As a result, health workers' skills in management of nutrition-related problems including nutritioncounselling skills [20][21][22].…”

Health System Quality Improvement

“…24,28,29 Given their integral role during a patient's hospital stay, nurses are ideally positioned to identify patients at risk for malnutrition and facilitate their treatment. [30][31][32] A nurse-led program was initiated at Akron General Medical Center ([AGMC], Akron, Ohio), a Magnet hospital and level 1 trauma center, and a recent addition to the Cleveland Clinic Health System, to update the hospital nutrition care process and streamline its delivery. The program followed a quality improvement program (QIP), starting with the establishment of an interdisciplinary core team.…”

Raising a beautiful swan: a phenomenological-hermeneutic interpretation of health professionals’ experiences of participating in a mealtime intervention inspired by Protected Mealtimes

“…This is in line with earlier studies that emphasized the necessity of changing mealtime practices because mealtime care was considered to have low priority and status compared with other tasks by caregivers (Martinsen & Norlyk, 2012; Ullrich et al, 2011). Similarly, our study identifies that in traditional settings, mealtime care before the intervention was not considered naturally integrated into care and rehabilitation, even though mealtime care has been recognized as an important element in the treatment of patients with neurological diseases (Jefferies, Johnson, & Ravens, 2011; Martinsen, 2005). The concept of Protected Mealtimes was considered by Dickinson et al (2008) to be an important tool for changing mealtime practices in which patients could eat with interruptions.…”