Exploring the role of the nutrition nurse specialist in an intestinal failure tertiary referral centre

Malhi, Hardip; Dera, Merceline; Fletcher, Jane

doi:10.12968/bjon.2022.31.7.s4

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“…Low importance and performance areas denote low priority areas but should be gradually improved. Despite the high importance of studies and QI activities in ensuring patient safety and treatment quality [ 9 , 12 ], NSNs did not appear to recognize this importance. Emphasizing the importance of this task should come first.…”

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Identifying the nutrition support nurses’ tasks using importance–performance analysis in Korea: a descriptive study

Park¹

2023

J Educ Eval Health Prof

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Purpose: Nutrition support nurse is a member of a nutrition support team and is a health care professional who takes a significant part in all aspects of nutritional care. This study aims to investigate ways to improve the quality of tasks performed by nutrition support nurses through survey questionnaires in Korea.Methods: An online survey was conducted between October 12 and November 31, 2018. The questionnaire consists of 36 items categorized into 5 subscales: nutrition-focused support care, education and counseling, consultation and coordination, research and quality improvement, and leadership. The importance–performance analysis method was used to confirm the relationship between the importance and performance of nutrition support nurses’ tasks.Results: A total of 101 nutrition support nurses participated in this survey. The importance (5.56±0.78) and performance (4.50±1.06) of nutrition support nurses’ tasks showed a significant difference (t=11.27, P<0.001). Education, counseling/consultation, and participation in developing their processes and guidelines were identified as low-performance activities compared with their importance.Conclusion: To intervene nutrition support effectively, nutrition support nurses should have the qualification or competency through the education program based on their practice. Improved awareness of nutrition support nurses participating in research and quality improvement activity for role development is required.

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“…As the expected roles of nurses in teams grew [ 8 , 9 ], so did interest in standardizing nursing practices in the NST. Practice guidelines for each NST member have already been published by the American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition or the European Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition [ 7 , 10 ].…”

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Identifying the nutrition support nurses’ tasks using importance–performance analysis in Korea: a descriptive study

Park¹

2023

J Educ Eval Health Prof

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“…Nutritional management by NST in hospitals is initiated when patients are diagnosed with the likelihood of developing malnutrition regardless of nutrition intake methods (Kim & Bu, 2021); thus, NST can provide early comprehensive intervention for hospitalized older adult patients who are at high risk for malnutrition. In NST, nurses serve a critical role in the extraction of malnourished patients, assessment, planning, monitoring, training patients and families to manage nutrition therapy at home, and education on nutritional management for nurses (Boeykens & Van Hecke, 2018; Malhi et al, 2022).…”

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Development of the ward nurses' discharge‐oriented dietary support scale for older adult patients in Japan

Miyabe

Doi

Kanoya

2023

Japan Journal Nursing Sci

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AimThis study aimed to develop a ward nurses' dietary support scale, including physical, psychological, and social background factors in preparation for older adult patients' life after discharge.MethodsWe conducted a cross‐sectional study using a self‐reported questionnaire. Scale items were created based on a conceptual analysis, and refined by a Delphi survey. In total, 696 nurses across 16 acute care hospitals in Japan were eligible to participate. The questionnaire comprised 51 items that used a five‐point Likert‐type scale. These items were evaluated using exploratory factor analysis. Reliability was evaluated using Cronbach's alpha and intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC). Pearson's correlation coefficients were calculated to determine concurrent validity, and construct validity was analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis.ResultsAltogether, 241 surveys were included in the data analysis; 236 nurses participated in both the test and the retest. The exploratory factor analysis identified 20 items from three factors as follows: “Assessment for healthy eating behavior,” “Adjustment of the living environment, including family and caregiver, together with other professions,” and “Continual frailty assessment.” In the confirmatory factor analysis, the fitness indices supported these results. Cronbach's alpha was 0.932 and ICC was 0.867 for the overall scale. In the concurrent validity, the three factors had a moderate correlation (r = 0.295–0.537, P < .01 and r = 0.254–0.648, P < .01), except for one subscale.ConclusionsWe developed a ward nurses' dietary support scale, including physical, psychological, and social background factors in preparation for older adult patients' life after discharge. Its reliability and validity were confirmed.

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Clinical nurse specialists in nutrition: A systematic review of roles and clinical experiences

Mancin,

Pipitone,

Testori

et al. 2023

International Nursing Review

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Background/scopeThe Clinical Nurse Specialist in Nutrition is a professional capable of providing specialist clinical assistance and leadership‐related clinical nutrition. To date, although their role has already been identified, there is still uncertainty about how this figure can actually fit into the various global health systems. The purpose of this review is to clarify and define the role of this professional aimed at analysing clinical experiences and data from nutrition scientific societies.MethodologyA systematic literature review was conducted using the Prisma Statement in the Cochrane Library databases and subsequently in PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, Scopus and Web of Science. In addition, a manual search of studies published in Google Scholar was conducted for the analysis of ‘grey literature’. Out of 2,348 identified records, 21 studies were included in the present review.ResultsThe development of specific training, certification and qualification protection courses is contributing to the development of this professional in various hospital and community clinical contexts. The clinical experiences identified have shown that this figure is able to provide specialist assistance by offering high levels of safety, efficacy and quality of the care provided.Conclusions/ implications for nursingThe implementation of nurse nutrition specialist, to date, is still limited at the global level, and training programmes coordinated between scientific societies and nursing universities could be the basis for the development of this specialization in countries where today this figure is not yet present.

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Exploring the role of the nutrition nurse specialist in an intestinal failure tertiary referral centre

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Identifying the nutrition support nurses’ tasks using importance–performance analysis in Korea: a descriptive study

Identifying the nutrition support nurses’ tasks using importance–performance analysis in Korea: a descriptive study

Development of the ward nurses' discharge‐oriented dietary support scale for older adult patients in Japan

Clinical nurse specialists in nutrition: A systematic review of roles and clinical experiences

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