Handling the inpatient's hospital ‘Career’: Are nurses laying the groundwork for healthy meal and nutritional care transitions?
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Handling the inpatient's hospital ‘Career’ : Are nurses laying the groundwork for healthy meal and nutritional care transitions? / Krogh, Line H.; Beck, Anne Marie; Kristensen, Niels H.; Hansen, Mette W.
In: Nursing Inquiry, Vol. 26, No. 1, e12262, 01.2019.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Handling the inpatient's hospital ‘Career’
T2 - Are nurses laying the groundwork for healthy meal and nutritional care transitions?
AU - Krogh, Line H.
AU - Beck, Anne Marie
AU - Kristensen, Niels H.
AU - Hansen, Mette W.
PY - 2019/1
Y1 - 2019/1
N2 - This qualitative study examined hospital nurses’ methods in handling meal and nutrition care during inpatient time, with an underlying focus on undernourished older adult. Observations and interviews were used to document nurses’ methods through the span of a transition (defined by an entry, passage, and exit). The study finds inconsistencies in care methods due to institutional processes restricting both mealtime care and nutritional logging of information throughout hospitalization. It is concluded that the consequences of these inconsistencies must be recognized and that new approaches to meals and nutritional care should be introduced in order to provide greater flexibility. Based on the assumption that mobilizing patient resources is pivotal for meal and nutritional care, it is argued that it may be important to mobilize patient resources during mealtime and in nutritional logging of information in order to increase the visibility of meal and nutritional care in patient transitions within the institution and across settings. Both nurses’ methods and institutions developmental initiatives regarding meal and nutritional care need to accommodate the differences between what in this paper is defined as social-bodily care and text-based care. This could be met through care methods that take place with, more than for the patient.
AB - This qualitative study examined hospital nurses’ methods in handling meal and nutrition care during inpatient time, with an underlying focus on undernourished older adult. Observations and interviews were used to document nurses’ methods through the span of a transition (defined by an entry, passage, and exit). The study finds inconsistencies in care methods due to institutional processes restricting both mealtime care and nutritional logging of information throughout hospitalization. It is concluded that the consequences of these inconsistencies must be recognized and that new approaches to meals and nutritional care should be introduced in order to provide greater flexibility. Based on the assumption that mobilizing patient resources is pivotal for meal and nutritional care, it is argued that it may be important to mobilize patient resources during mealtime and in nutritional logging of information in order to increase the visibility of meal and nutritional care in patient transitions within the institution and across settings. Both nurses’ methods and institutions developmental initiatives regarding meal and nutritional care need to accommodate the differences between what in this paper is defined as social-bodily care and text-based care. This could be met through care methods that take place with, more than for the patient.
KW - ethnomethodology
KW - meal
KW - method
KW - nursing
KW - nutrition
KW - qualitative study
KW - total institution
KW - transition
U2 - 10.1111/nin.12262
DO - 10.1111/nin.12262
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 30123979
AN - SCOPUS:85053201294
VL - 26
JO - Nursing Inquiry
JF - Nursing Inquiry
SN - 1320-7881
IS - 1
M1 - e12262
ER -
ID: 212499369