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The Nursing Role in Maintaining Patients Nutritional Intake

Introduction. Nutrition plays a vital role in the patient's recovery process and, whilst it could be argued that nutrition is everyone's responsibility, registered nurses have traditionally played a central role in meeting the nutritional needs of patients in hospital.. Identifying the problems. The

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The Nursing Role in Maintaining Patients Nutritional Intake

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    1. The Nursing Role in Maintaining Patients’ Nutritional Intake

    2. Introduction Nutrition plays a vital role in the patient’s recovery process and, whilst it could be argued that nutrition is everyone’s responsibility, registered nurses have traditionally played a central role in meeting the nutritional needs of patients in hospital.

    3. Identifying the problems The standard of nutritional care delivered to patients is reliant upon a number of factors, including: the level of nutritional knowledge and organizational skills of registered nurses in the clinical area. their involvement at patient meals. the skills and knowledge of healthcare assistants supporting registered nurses. communication between nursing staff, healthcare assistants

    4. Registered nurse responsibilities in patient nutrition Leadership promotion and maintenance of good nutritional care through the clear management of patient mealtimes and through enhancing the mealtime environment. Nutrition screening Nurses are in the ideal position and have the appropriate skills to enable them to accurately screen the patient on admission (or soon afterwards) to identify those at risk of malnutrition and to assess their nutritional needs.

    5. Appropriate referral for those with complex nutritional needs To ensure that appropriate nutritional care is provided, it is essential that on completion of nutrition screening nurses follow and implement the appropriate care guidelines that accompany the screening tool. Ensuring patients eat the food provided Neither a nutrition screening process nor a dietetic nutrition assessment will be of benefit t to the patient unless the results are acted upon and the patient eats the food provided to them.

    6. Education to deliver and monitor appropriate nutritional care All nurses involved in the clinical care of patients should receive education both pre- and post registration regarding the importance of good nutrition, the implications of malnutrition, nutrition screening and techniques for providing nutrition support. 6. Documentation

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