NUTRITION SUPPORT TEAMS

NUTRITION SUPPORT TEAMS

Multidisciplinary nutrition support teams are essential to ensure that all essential aspects relating to the appropriate - ness of nutritional support, initiation and maintenance are addressed safely . The team should include doctors, dieticians, specialist nutrition support nurses and pharmacists and may also include other allied healthcare professionals suc h as speech and language therapists. Specialist nutrition support nurses, in conjunction with ward nurses and dieticians, should aim to minimise complications related to enteral or parenteral feeding, develop and implement protocols for training of ward nurses in administration of enteral and parenteral nutrition, around the time of discharge from hospital. NUTRITION SUPPORT TEAMS

Multidisciplinary nutrition support teams are essential to ensure that all essential aspects relating to the appropriate - ness of nutritional support, initiation and maintenance are addressed safely . The team should include doctors, dieticians, specialist nutrition support nurses and pharmacists and may also include other allied healthcare professionals suc h as speech and language therapists. Specialist nutrition support nurses, in conjunction with ward nurses and dieticians, should aim to minimise complications related to enteral or parenteral feeding, develop and implement protocols for training of ward nurses in administration of enteral and parenteral nutrition, around the time of discharge from hospital. NUTRITION SUPPORT TEAMS

Multidisciplinary nutrition support teams are essential to ensure that all essential aspects relating to the appropriate - ness of nutritional support, initiation and maintenance are addressed safely . The team should include doctors, dieticians, specialist nutrition support nurses and pharmacists and may also include other allied healthcare professionals suc h as speech and language therapists. Specialist nutrition support nurses, in conjunction with ward nurses and dieticians, should aim to minimise complications related to enteral or parenteral feeding, develop and implement protocols for training of ward nurses in administration of enteral and parenteral nutrition, around the time of discharge from hospital.