National and European initiatives to improve standards of nutritional care -- Malnutrition -- Nutrition screening and assessment -- Nursing role in maintaining patients' oral nutritional intake -- Enteral nutrition -- Parenteral nutrition -- Re-feeding syndrome -- Ethics and commitment to feed -- Role of a hospital nutrition support team -- Transfer of care from hospital to community -- Case studies.
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This is a comprehensive look at all aspects of nutrition from roles and responsibilities to caring for a patient with specific nutritional needs. The text is aimed primarily at nurses and addresses some of the issues they will encounter when caring for patients' nutritional needs in a hospital setting.