Evidence-Based Practices for Managing Malnutrition in Adult Nursing

Introducing evidence-based
practice for nursing Adult
Nursing

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................3
SEARCH..................................................................................................................................................4
DISCUSSION...........................................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................................8
Implications for practice........................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Adult nursing refers to providing care and service to adult who are more than 18 and
elder people. This is general term which defines that care and support services are provided
for the adult patients. This allow to take care of older and elder people through delivering
better care and support for their improved health. In this, there is need to implement the
evidence based practices which are effective and are safe for the patient. Through this, adult
nursing staff can deliver better and effective care and support that can allow to achieve the
better health. The concept of nursing here generally defined as it is a practice which is based
on caring and including the processes such as diagnosis, treatments which are basically
applied to the human experiences to the well-being as well as illness. The practices which are
being supported are more likely oriented towards the change of relationships as well as the
surrounding environment so as to encourage the health. In this, evidence base practices can
specifically allow nurses to evaluate research so that they can potentially understand
effectiveness of a diagnostic of a particular treatment provided to patients. Having
applications of evidence based practices can signifcantly allow nurses to involve patients in
their effective care plan. There are usually four concepts which are frequently interrelated as
well as fundamental to the theory of care providing such as a person, its environment, the
well-being and providing the care to patients. These four collaboratively termed as the
metaparadigm for providing the quality care. The wide scope of the nursing practices which
generally can reflects every role as well as the activities which can be undertaken by the care
providers so as to address the full range of an individual’s experience and the responses to the
well-being as well as its illness. This can involve the health promotions, its protection, the
restoration of health, rehabilitation as well as the palliation. The practices of the care provider
are only directed towards the aims or objectives of assisting the clients so as to achieve as
well as maintaining the optimal well-being to increase the quality of life across the lifespan.
The concept of malnutrition is basically a condition which are developed when the human
body is deprived of the various essential vitamins, minerals as well as the other nutrients
which are generally required so as to maintain the tissues or the organs of the body to eb
healthy as well as can able to function well. The condition of malnutrition can generally arise
among humans who are either over nourished or they can be undernourished. In context with
adults, the concept of malnutrition can be generally caused by a variety of the several factors
such as the lack of capability to swallow or chew the food materials, the reduced appetite, an
elevated use of the prescribed medications or the drugs. In this report it will cover the various

search strategies which are involved in the management of the malnourished ill people who
ae generally admitted to the hospitals. This report will also cover about the role of the care
providers in providing the supportive care towards an older patient so that they can also live
heathy lives. There is a discussion about what recommendations should be taken to overcome
the cause of malnutrition among older adults (Longhurst, 2018).
SEARCH
In this, it is generally searched from the various literatures which are usually assessed
through the NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) database. The search
here used to determine the evidence based practices for nurses to treat malnutrition among the
older age group patients in the care organizations. It involve the evidence based nursing
practices that are used in managing the nutritional balance as well as providing adequate care
towards the patients who are undernutrition. It is important to delivery better and effective
care through applying the concept of adult nursing for patient’s better and improved health.
The search includes an English language Journal articles which are published in the year from
2015 to 2021. In addition to this, undernutrition such as both the micronutrients and the
macronutrients are still a surprisingly common issues in between the old age group of adults
in the United Kingdom. The search generally analysed that there is a broad range of the
nutrition supplements generally which the community care providers are required to be aware
of in managing the nutritional requirements of the older adult patients. While searching
various articles through NICE database, it is found that nurses have a responsibility to
address nutritional requirements of patients by conducting specific assessments, screenings
as well as applying specific interventions. In the guidelines of the NICE database, there are
many factors which can affect the dietary intake among older adults are generally being
considered. The national institute for health and care excellence generally gives the national
guidance as well as advice so as to enhance the social and health care of the public. From
search through several articles, it is found through evidenced based practices that there are
various nursing interventions which can help them in assessing care so that older adults can
effectively improve their nutritional amount (Nurtition & Dietetics, 2009). while assesssing
patients, there are tools that can help nurses to better evaluate their conditions such as
malnutrition screening tool and nutritional assessment tool. The main purpose of the health
and care excellence evidence search is to give an access to selected evidences in the well-
being, social care as well as the public well-being. The evidence of the search tool generally
brings collaboratively evidences on the well-being, medications as well as the technologies,