Protocolo de actuación en consulta de enfermería de educación para la salud

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to introduce the nursing work being carried out in a Nutrition Education Consultancy and how it provides a high degree of satisfaction by also reducing the BMI (body mass index) of the patients who take part in the education program, with the resulting improvement in their quality of life. The consultancy, which has been functioning for a year and a half, has attended to 505 patients a year. All patients were assessed by nurses who had been trained in this and, after the initial appraisal, they were assigned to the treatment plan that contemplates the diagnosis of “inadequate knowledge”. The education program, through which the patient/family member is trained in general diet issues, food product groups, the composition of the diet and energy and physical exercise needs, allows the complications derived from malnutrition (due to an excess or bad habits) to be prevented and healthy lifestyles that prevent the appearance of complications to be established.