Barriers to nutritional care for undernourished hospitalised older people

被引:78
作者
Eide, Helene Dahl [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Halvorsen, Kristin [3 ]
Almendingen, Kari [3 ]
机构
[1] Akershus Univ Hosp, Div Med, Lorenskog, Norway
[2] Univ Oslo, Inst Clin Med, Lorenskog, Norway
[3] Oslo & Akershus Univ Coll Appl Sci, Fac Hlth Sci, Dept Hlth Nutr & Management, N-0130 Oslo, Norway
关键词
elderly; experiences; focus groups; hermeneutics; hospital care; nurses; nutrition; phenomenology; qualitative study; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; UNDERNUTRITION; MALNUTRITION; GUIDELINES; IMPLEMENTATION; PREVALENCE; KNOWLEDGE; ATTITUDES; DOCTORS; NURSES;
D O I
10.1111/jocn.12562
中图分类号
R47 [护理学];
学科分类号
101102 [成人与老年护理学];
摘要
Aims and objectivesTo identify what nurses experience as barriers to ensuring adequate nutritional care for the undernourished hospitalized elderly. BackgroundUndernutrition occurs frequently among the hospitalised elderly and can result in a variety of negative consequences if not treated. Nevertheless, undernutrition is often unrecognised and undertreated. Nurses have a great responsibility for nutritional care, as this is part of the patient's basic needs. Exploring nurses' experiences of preventing and treating undernourishment among older patients in hospitals is therefore highly relevant. DesignA focus group study was employed based on a hermeneutic phenomenological methodological approach. MethodsFour focus group interviews with totally 16 nurses working in one large university hospital in Norway were conducted in spring 2012. The nurses were recruited from seven somatic wards, all with a high proportion of older (70years) inpatients. The data were analysed in the three interpretative contexts: self-understanding, a critical common-sense understanding and a theoretical understanding. ResultsWe identified five themes that reflect barriers the nurses experience in relation to ensuring adequate nutritional care for the undernourished elderly: loneliness in nutritional care, a need for competence in nutritional care, low flexibility in food service practices, system failure in nutritional care and nutritional care is being ignored. ConclusionsThe results imply that nutritional care at the university hospital has its limits within the hospital structure and organisation, but also regarding the nurses' competence. Moreover, the barriers revealed that the undernourished elderly are not identified and treated properly as stipulated in the recommendations in the national guidelines on the prevention and treatment of undernutrition. Relevance to clinical practiceThe barriers revealed in this study are valuable when considering improvements to nutritional care practices on hospital wards to enable undernourished older inpatients to be identified and treated properly.
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