Improving Documentation of Nutritional Care in A Nursing Home: An Evaluation of A Participatory Action Research Project.

ABSTRACT: Nursing home patients at nutritional risk are often not identified, nor given entitled nutritional treatment. One approach proven suitable to facilitate change in clinical practise is participatory action research (PAR). This is a process which involves research participants in reflection, planning, action, observation, assessing and re-planning, targeted to bring about change. The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether a PAR project resulted in improved documentation of nutritional care in a nursing home ward. Method and sample: A quantitative evaluation. Documentation of the nutritional information was collected from medical records of residents in a nursing home ward at baseline and five months into the project period. Increased documentation of individual nutritional treatmen

SUBMITTER: Hestevik CH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6473428 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature