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Nutrition and wound healing

10 September 1997

Nursing Standard

Special focus: Tissue viability

It is now more than 20 years since a series of classicpapers revealed the problem of malnutrition among hospitalised patients (Bistrianet al1974,1976,Hillet al1977)....

Malnutrition in the UK

01 November 2001

Primary Health Care

General

Community nurses may be the only contact that malnourished patients have with a health professional. Hazel Rollins explains why they need to get to grips with the...

Screening for malnutrition

01 December 2001

Primary Health Care

General

Malnutrition is a major UK health problem that often goes undetected and unmanaged. Screening for the problem is the only way that vulnerable people can be...

Implementing a screening programme

01 February 2002

Primary Health Care

General

Malnutrition is a major public health problem that can only be tackled successfully by implementing screening programmes. Screening can only be effective if it is...

The psychosocial impact on parents of tube feeding their child

01 May 2006

Paediatric Nursing

Clinical

A review of 13 papers investigating parents’ experience of long-term tube feeding in disabled children and young people identified a significant impact on parents...

Screening for malnutrition

10 November 1999

Nursing Standard

CPD

This article recommends that screening for malnutrition is used in both primary care and hospital settings. The authors also outline how nurses are ideally placed to...

Screening for malnutrition

01 December 1999

Primary Health Care

CPD

Aims and intended learning outcomes The aim of this article Is to raise awareness of nutrition as a public health issue and to enable nurses to deliver appropriate...