A new specialist for nutritional care. The role of the nutrition nurse specialist.
Nutrition nurse specialists play an increasingly important role in the hospital nutrition team, responsible for the clinical care of patients on enteral and parenteral nutrition and the educational development of nursing colleagues. This, the first of an occasional series looking at different nursing specialties, examines the work of these nurses.
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D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000193:education / Q000592:standards*; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D013041:Specialties, Nursing