The importance of eating whilst recovering in a hospital
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Hospital catering as an essential part of patient care
- Long stay patients
- The staff and training to emphasize the importance of nutrition
- Responsibility for ensuring that patients eat and drink in hospital
- The only exception to nurses not being involved with feeding
- Examining the responsibilities of the nurse
- Conclusion
- References
Abstract
The Hungry in hospital report concerns the importance of food in relation to nutrition, and how nutrition is important when people are ill in terms of the healing process. It explores how food is therefore part of a patient's treatment, the reputation of hospital food, and suggests that health is being seriously affected when people in hospital do not eat or drink enough. The aims and recommendations of the report highlight the importance of nutrition in hospital, why patients leave hospital undernourished, it examines whose role is it to feed patients. The Hungry in hospital report was written in January 1997, the rationale in choosing this particular report stems from a mixture of personal patient experience and now, a decade later, the concerns of the report are evident in everyday practice in my role as a student nurse.
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