Educating registered nurses and healthcare support workers on nutrition and tissue viability.

Autor: Royall, Dawn
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Zdroj: British Journal of Community Nursing; 2019 Supplement7, Vol. 24 Issue Supp7, pS29-S31, 3p
Abstrakt: This article provides an outline of an educational programme designed to inform and guide registered nurses and healthcare support workers on understanding the connection between nutrition and wound healing, with the aim of helping them recognise malnutrition in older community-dwelling adults with wounds. The Agents for Nutrition and Tissue Viability programme was set up 9 years ago, The Agents for Nutrition and Tissue Viability Programme was set up 9 years ago within an acute trust and has since then has been rolled out to a local community trust. Benefits have included greater networking between acute and community trusts and quality improvements for patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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