Fundamental nursing care: A systematic review of the evidence on the effect of nursing care interventions for nutrition, elimination, mobility and hygiene.

ABSTRACT:

Aims and objectives

To determine the effects of nursing interventions for people's nutrition, elimination, mobility and hygiene needs.

Background

Patient experience of health care is sensitive to nursing quality. A refocus on fundamental nursing care is undermined by lack of evidence of effectiveness for interventions in core areas such as elimination, nutrition, mobility and hygiene.

Design

Systematic review.

Methods

We searched for and included experimental studies on interventions by professionally qualified and unregistered nurses that addressed participants' nutrition, elimination, mobility and hygiene needs. We extracted data on scope, quality and results of studies followed by descriptive narrative synthesis of included study outcomes using a novel form

SUBMITTER: Richards DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6001513 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature