NUTRITION IN CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS, EARLY INTRODUCTION AND MAINTAINANCE- NURSES ROLE Nutrition is very vital in critically ill patients, often the neglected area of critical care where researchers and analysts had been concentrating on for a long time. Guidelines and protocols have been formulated by institutions and organisation, but compliance had been identified as the reason to experience abasement in proper nutrition. Stroud (2007) mentioned […]

The main change that has happened in Miss E’s food intake is that she has started to move towards the food that is easier to swallow. Thus rather than eating fresh and cooked food, she is resorting to canned foods to make sure that she can swallow it more easily. The physical changes have not contributed that much towards her food intake; instead, it is […]

In today’s society it seems that everyone wants to loose weight and see immediate results. The trend of using dietary supplements increases constantly because of this factor. The market for these supplements is skyrocketing every year as the demand for the so-called miracle pills continues to grow. Much research has been done on many of these drugs and has proven that many are not all […]

Nutrition plays a significant role in wound healing since it enables optimal healing to occur. Proper nutrition enhances the body’s ability to regain its balance. Because of children’s susceptibility to wounds, parents need to understand the basic process of wound healing and the role of nutrition in wound care. Wound healing takes place through three interrelated phases: inflammatory; the proliferate stage; and the process of […]

Good Nutritional practices play a very critical role in the physical performance of not only human beings but also all living creatures. To excel in any endurance physical activity, all the body systems must perform since the bioenergetics’ functions of the muscles has to be sustained in order to function at peak levels. (Berning, J. and E. Hultman. 1972) Energy providing nutrients, carbohydrates, lipids (which […]

When paying close attention to my diet, it becomes obvious very quickly that I do not get enough calcium in my diet. I am slightly low in other area, such as my Vitamin A and iron, but I am drastically low in my intake of calcium. The problem is that I truly don’t like milk. I will drink chocolate milk on occasion and will eat […]

Few crises have affected human health and threatened social and economic development like HIV/AIDS. As infection rates continue to escalate around the world — particularly in countries with large rural populations and widespread small-scale agriculture — the pandemic is having a significant impact on food security and nutrition, creating a deadly cycle: HIV/AIDS typically strikes the household’s most productive members first. When these people become […]