Nutrition

C Best

• 24 oktober 2008
• 9780470061312

Samenvatting:

This book provides a comprehensive look at all aspects of nutrition from roles and responsibilities to caring for a patient with specific nutritional needs. It is aimed primarily at nurses and addresses some of the issues they will encounter when caring for patients nutritional needs in a hospital setting.

Good nutrition underpins good clinical nursing care. Nutrition: A Handbook for Nurses aims to raise awareness and address some of the issues that nurses ill encounter when caring for patients' nutritional needs in a hospital setting. It also highlighted the benefits of a hospital based Nutrition Support Team in providing a multidisciplinary approach to nutrition.

This accessible and practical book explores issues including: malnutrition, nutrition screening and assessment, the nursing role in maintaining patients' oral nutritional intake, enteral and parental nutrition, and the surrounding legal and ethical issues. It will be essential reading for all nurses working in hospital settings.

This book provides a comprehensive look at all aspects of nutrition from roles and responsibilities to caring for a patient with specific nutritional needs. It is aimed primarily at nurses and addresses some of the issues they will encounter when caring for patients nutritional needs in a hospital setting. It also highlights the benefits of a hospital based Nutrition Team providing a multidisciplinary approach to nutrition. It includes a number of case studies to clarify some of the issues discussed and concludes by examining issues that need to be considered before discharging a patient home from hospital into the community.