Assessment and documentation of patients' nutritional status: Perceptions of registered nurses and their chief nurses

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 2125-2136

  Persenius, Mona Wentzel ^a   Hall Lord, Marie Louise ^a,b   Bååth, Carina ^a   Larsson, Bodil Wilde ^a  

^a KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Nursing; Nutrition; Nutritional screening; Nutritional tools; The VIPS model

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DOCUMENTATION; EDUCATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; MODEL; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NURSE ADMINISTRATOR; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWEDEN;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DOCUMENTATION; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALNUTRITION; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NURSING; NURSE ADMINISTRATORS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING RECORDS; NURSING STAFF; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SWEDEN;

EID: 47349099723     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2007.02202.x     Document Type: Article

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