Di Zhang DNP, APN, Laura Bee Gek Tay FRCP, Su Fee Lim PHD, APN, Joyce Yee Hui Ang BSN, RN, Cherie Chung Yan Tong MSc, CNSC, RD, Clarissa Yoke Leng Tang APD, Jill Brennan-Cook DNP, RN, GERO-BC
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Abstract
Background
Poor dietary intake is common in hospitalised older people. A targeted mealtime intervention is needed to improve nutrition care and dietary intake, especially for those at risk of malnutrition.
Objectives
This quality improvement project designed, implemented and evaluated a mealtime assistance bundle consisting of care measures driven by the hospital nursing team. The aims were to improve the mealtime care process to promote dietary intake of the hospitalised older people and to improve nursing staff's knowledge, attitude and practice in malnutrition.
Methods
This project adopted a pre–post design, targeting older people aged 65 years and above, who were admitted to a general medical unit in a regional hospital in Singapore. A mealtime assistance bundle consisting of seven care measures, using the acronym CANFEED, was implemented for older adults at risk of malnutrition. Outcome measures on the amount of dietary intake during meals through chart reviews and surveys of nursing staff using Malnutrition Knowledge, Attitudes and perceived Practices (M-KAP) questionnaire were performed before and after implementation.
Results
There were fewer older adults with poor intake in the post-implementation group than the pre-implementation group. Among those at risk of malnutrition, older adults in the post-implementation group had higher average intake of all provided meals as well as the protein-dense main dish. Significant improvements were noted in the total scores rated by the nursing staff in both the Knowledge-Attitude subscale and Practice subscale of the M-KAP questionnaire.
Conclusions
Integrating a nurse-driven mealtime assistance bundle into usual care may have positive outcomes on nutritional intake of hospitalised older people at risk of malnutrition, and on knowledge, attitude and practice of hospital nurses in nutrition care.
Implications for Practice
Nurses play a critical role in nutrition care for hospitalised older people. Continuing efforts to improve nutritional intake of hospitalised older people should focus on staff education, building a multidisciplinary food-promoting culture and patient, family and community empowerment. More efficient clinical processes incorporating information technology with the EMR to support better nutrition care of the hospitalised older people are needed.
期刊介绍：
International Journal of Older People Nursing welcomes scholarly papers on all aspects of older people nursing including research, practice, education, management, and policy. We publish manuscripts that further scholarly inquiry and improve practice through innovation and creativity in all aspects of gerontological nursing. We encourage submission of integrative and systematic reviews; original quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research; secondary analyses of existing data; historical works; theoretical and conceptual analyses; evidence based practice projects and other practice improvement reports; and policy analyses. All submissions must reflect consideration of IJOPN''s international readership and include explicit perspective on gerontological nursing. We particularly welcome submissions from regions of the world underrepresented in the gerontological nursing literature and from settings and situations not typically addressed in that literature. Editorial perspectives are published in each issue. Editorial perspectives are submitted by invitation only.
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