nutrition

Use of subcutaneous fluids in palliative care with children: a case study

A discussion of subcutaneous fluid therapy in the children’s palliative care setting

Promoting and supporting healthy eating among nurses

How workplaces can be adapted to support nurses to eat healthily

Urinary tract infection prevention: evaluating Scotland’s national hydration campaign

Understand the challenges posed by urinary tract infections in older people

COVID-19 nutritional advice

Nutritional advice to help patients during and after COVID-19 has been published

Providing optimal nursing care for patients undergoing enteral feeding

Refresh your knowledge of the various routes for enteral feeding and medicines administration

How a new nursing role is tackling hospital-associated harm

UK’s first consultant nurse in harms-free care champions holistic approach to patient safety
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Nursing Standard podcast: is your workplace making you unhealthy?

Professor of health promotion at London South Bank University discusses her research

On the hospital menu: memories of comfort food to whet inpatients’ appetites

How a trust wants to make mealtimes more palatable by offering patients their childhood food

Understanding the principles and aims of intravenous fluid therapy

Ensuring safe and effective IV fluid therapy and patient assessment

Brisk breakfast: machine makes scrambled eggs for patients in 15 seconds

Trial of device at Nottingham hospital whips up a positive response

Person-centred approaches to improve access to cardiac rehabilitation

Enhance equity of access to programmes and tailor them to patients’ needs and preferences

Nurse-led project aims to reduce dehydration in older people

University of West London I-Hydrate project offers advice on hydration in nursing homes

Osteoporosis and fragility fractures: risk assessment, management and prevention

Nurses need to be aware of the risk factors and identify at-risk patients

Why unexpected weight loss in older people should not be ignored

Nurses need to debunk the myths about weight and appetite in older age

Strategies to prevent dehydration in older people with dementia: a literature review

There is a significant evidence base supporting a range of strategies to improve hydration

Stop blaming nurses for malnutrition in older people

Focus instead on the widespread myths in the community about healthy eating

Dietary intake of people with dementia on acute hospital wards

This evaluation acknowledges the whole process of nutritional care for people with dementia

Nutritional support nurses will address ‘a basic need’ in North Lincolnshire and Goole

Charlie Ellis and Hannah Crichton say good nutrition helps patients to recover faster

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