Nursing Skills in Nutrition, Hydration and Elimination
Sheila Cunningham,Tina Moore
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Nursing Skills in Nutrition, Hydration and Elimination
Sheila Cunningham,Tina Moore
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The body needs a constant supply of nutrients and water in order to survive, with water being required for the transportation of nutrients to cells and also for the transportation of waste out of the body.
This practical pocket guide focuses on what you need to know to support your patients' health and comfort. It looks at:
The anatomy and physiology of the gastrointestinal system
The anatomy and physiology of the renal system
Elimination and associated skills
Catheterisation
Nutrition
Hydration
Fluid balance
This competency-based text covers relevant key concepts, anatomy and physiology, lifespan matters, assessment and nursing skills. To support your learning, it also includes learning outcomes, concept map summaries, activities, questions and scenarios with sample answers, and critical reflection thinking points.
Quick and easy to reference, this short, clinically focused guide is ideal for use on placements or for revision. It is suitable for pre-registration nurses, students on the nursing associate programme and newly qualified nurses.
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The importance of maintaining a healthy dietary intake and exercise has been advocated within nursing and now society for many years. Careful monitoring and promotion of adequate nutritional input are an essential part of the nurseās role to promote recovery and prevent additional problems for the patient.
Link to Future Nurse Proficiencies (Nursing and Midwifery Council [NMC] 2018)
Platform 4 Providing and evaluating care: specifically 4.6
Skills annexe B, part 1: Procedures for assessing peopleās needs for person-centred care. Specifically 2.6: accurately measure weight and height, calculate body mass index and recognise healthy ranges and clinically significant low/high readings.
Skills annexe B, part 2: Procedures for the planning, provision and management of person-centred nursing care. Specifically 5.1: observe, assess and optimise nutrition and hydration status and determine the need for intervention and support. 5.7: manage artificial nutrition and hydration using oral, enteral and parenteral routes. 5.9: manage fluid and nutritional infusion pumps and devices.
Expected knowledge
ā¢ An overview of basic food groups
ā¢ Factors affecting the individualās ability to eat a healthy diet
Introduction
As with the recording of fluid balance (next chapter), nutrition within some sectors of nursing, does not receive the amount of attention that it should and would benefit from improvements. Nutrition is essential for the functional maintenance and survival of cells. During periods of ill health, an individualās daily requirements can double. Another āat-riskā group is the ageing population. The problem here is that the older personās nutritional requirements have not been so well defined. In addition, both lean body mass and basal metabolic rate decline with age, resulting in their energy requirement (per kilogram of body weight) also being reduced, and making this group particularly vulnerable to malnutrition. Malnutrition is the state in which there is a deficiency in energy, protein and other essential nutrients, causing adverse effects on body tissue, function and composition. Signs and symptoms of malnutrition include: weight loss that is unplanned; increased susceptibility to infections; delayed wound healing; irritability; osteoporosis; muscle loss/ weakness.
Disorders that have been linked to poor nutritional intake can include: cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, and osteoporosis.
Content
Nutritional ā body mass index assessment
Enteral feeding
Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) feeding
Total parenteral nutrition (TPN)
Learning outcomes
ā¢ Demonstrate knowledge and understanding how to identify the importance of a balanced healthy nutritional intake
ā¢ Assess a patientās nutritional status
ā¢ Recognise the signs and symptoms of factors contributing to a deteriorating nutritional state
ā¢ Differentiate the different types of nutritional support available
Key background
Conducting a comprehensive nutritional assessment and ensuring that the patientās nutritional needs are met is very much part of the nurseās role. Nurses should work in collaboration with a nutritionist. Adequate nutrition is vital for physical and psychological wellbeing, even to the extent that the patientās quality of life can be improved.
At the time of writing the daily reference intakes for adults are: energy: 8,400 kJ/2,000 kcal; total fat: <70 g; saturates: <20 g; carbohydrate: at least 260 g; total sugars: 90 g; protein: 50 g; salt: <6 g. This is elaborated on in the āEat Well Guideā which is an interactive web resource that explains, in great detail, the type of food and food combinations that can be taken to maintain a healthy diet. The āEat Well Guideā can be found AT www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/the-eatwell-guide.
Children have different nutritional needs. Between the ages of two and five, children should gradually move to eating the same foods as the rest of the family in the proportions shown in the āEat Well Guideā. Therefore this guide does not apply to under two year olds. It has long been recognised that primarily breast milk (for at least six months) is the most valuable feed to promote the growth, development and overall health of babies, because breast milk contains the nutrients that babies require, in addition to antibodies to help boost their immunity and protect them from various common childhood infections. The World Health Organization (WHO 2017) recommends that infants should receive complementary foods with continued breastfeeding up to two years of age or beyond.
To help eat healthily many food packages are now colour coded. The red, amber and green colour coding on the front of food packs helps to quickly assess whether a food is high (red), medium (amber) or low (green) in fat, saturated fat, sugars or salt.
There are a number of routes and devices that can support meeting the needs of individuals during their period of ill health.
FIGURE 1.1 Nutritional ā body mass index assessment
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APA 6 Citation
Cunningham, S., & Moore, T. (2019). Nursing Skills in Nutrition, Hydration and Elimination (1st ed.). Taylor and Francis. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/1547749/nursing-skills-in-nutrition-hydration-and-elimination-pdf (Original work published 2019)
Chicago Citation
Cunningham, Sheila, and Tina Moore. (2019) 2019. Nursing Skills in Nutrition, Hydration and Elimination. 1st ed. Taylor and Francis. https://www.perlego.com/book/1547749/nursing-skills-in-nutrition-hydration-and-elimination-pdf.
Harvard Citation
Cunningham, S. and Moore, T. (2019) Nursing Skills in Nutrition, Hydration and Elimination. 1st edn. Taylor and Francis. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/1547749/nursing-skills-in-nutrition-hydration-and-elimination-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).
MLA 7 Citation
Cunningham, Sheila, and Tina Moore. Nursing Skills in Nutrition, Hydration and Elimination. 1st ed. Taylor and Francis, 2019. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.