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Recovering from burns: jamie’s story

01 September 1997

Paediatric Nursing

Burns clinical

This is my account of a tragedy that struck our family and how it affected us all. I wrote this story in the hope that it might help other families who find...

Screening and assessing the nutritional status of older people

01 September 2002

Nursing Older People

Nursing older people

Nutritional status can be defined as ‘the state of health produced by the balance between requirement and intake of nutrients’ (Barker 1996). When assessing or...

Nutritional screening and assessment

19 August 1998

Nursing Standard

Focus on nutrition

IN RECENT years, considerable attention has focused on the prevalence of malnutrition in community and acute hospital settings, how it can delay recovery, and...

Home enteral nutrition: Organisation of services

01 May 2013

Nursing Older People

Art & Science

This article discusses how services for people receiving enteral nutrition via a nasogastric or gastrostomy tube at home are organised. The home enteral nutrition...