Free Nutrition Supplement

Nurses are fundamental in providing nutritional support and information to patients.

Nursing staff are in the front line when it comes to identifying and addressing the nutritional needs of patients. It is the nurse's responsibility to ensure that patients in hospital are adequately fed and provided the correct diet for their condition and to aid optimum recovery. Nurses identifying a patient who is malnourished, or at risk of malnutrition, can initiate an early referral to a dietician, and can reduce morbidity rates. It is vital that nurses keep up to date with evidence-based research and studies to ensure that they provide the relevant care to patients.

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In this exclusive nutrition supplement, British Journal of Nursing looks at key areas of this topic. These are just a few of the issues addressed in this 52 page supplement published by BJN:

• How nutritional care is essential to maintaining optimum health, preventing complications, and improving wound healing in patients
• Nurses involvement in preventing childhood obesity by working with the child and family and combining educational interventions with behavioural and lifestyle changes
• How nurses can support people with intellectual disabilities who are obese
• How to support adults with enteral feeds including and an update on new feeds, access devices and placement techniques
• How obesity contributes to the development of type 2 diabetes and the approaches to managing overweight and obesity of patients
• How to support patients with a vitamin D deficiency: what medications might adversely affect vitamin absorption, which patient groups are most at risk of deficiency, and practical and cost-effective means to treat patients suffering from a lack of vitamin D.

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