title: The nurse's role in patient nutrition and hydration.
abstract: Abstract Evans L, Best C (2015) Meeting patients' nutrition and hydration needs. The Nursing and Midwifery Council's new code was introduced in March 2015. For the first time, nutrition and hydration are mentioned specifically within the code. This article explores why this has become necessary and how nursing responsibility for the nutritional care of the patient has changed over the past 150 years. It also looks in more depth at how the nutritional care can meet the standards of the code.
authors.forename: Liz
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Evans
authors.forename: Carolyn
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Best
mesh_terms: D005440:Fluid Therapy; D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009752:Nutritional Status; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D012956:Societies, Nursing