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Role of Nurse in Nutritional Care

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DOI: 10.31031/NTNF.2018.02.000528

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Role of Nurse in Nutritional Care
Bushra Mushtaq*
Psychiatry Nursing Scholar, India
*Corresponding author: Mushtaq B, PG Psychiatry Nursing Scholar, Srinagar, India
Submission: May 11, 2018; Published: May 15, 2018
Opinion
Nutrition is very essential for normal body functioning.
Nutrition for the clients with disease helps in the prompt healing
and early recovery. Nurse has role to play in both hospital and
community settings and nurse plays a dramatic role in different
levels of health care. Broadly categorizing nurse has different roles
at different levels.
Health Education
Health education being an extremely powerful component in
achieving the adequate healthy life, nurse uses health education
component as a tool in every setting and where ever needed like
hospitals, clinics, community, schools, etc.
1. Nurse educates about healthy and balanced diet to the
peoples.
2. Gives knowledge about recommendations required by
different age and gender groups.
3. Educated about best and easy ways to achieve good
nutritious diet.
4. Managing easy nutrients from locally available foods.
5. Education about the Menu planning.
Hospitals
Nurse working in different wards of hospital are very vigilant
in maintaining adequate nutrition levels for the client admitted.
1. In hospital nurse has to take care of nutritional aspects of
the admitted client in ward.
2. Educates the client as well as family members regarding
the importance of the healthy and nutritious diet.
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3. Nurse maintains the adequate diet plans for the client.
4. Helps in monitoring the conditions of the client like
vomiting, input-output, electrolyte monitoring, in order to add
different components in the diet.
5. Maintaining parental nutrition for the client.
6. Maintenance of adequate hydration.
Community
In community nurse focuses on the prevention aspect i.e.
helps in giving the basic education regarding prevention of certain
nutritional deficiency disease. At the community level the nurse can
act as:
1. Community health nurse.
2. School health nurse.
And work in different sectors where she mainly works at grass
root levels to correct the nutritional deficiencies in the client.
1. Nurse rectifies the different patterns of the nutrition
opted by the people.
2. Nurse collaborates with government and non-govt.
agencies working for nutritional betterment of public sectors.
3. Nurse plays a role in school health programs as school
health nurse, helps in identification of malnourished children
and maintains growth charts.
4. Involvement of family.
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