Good nutrition underpins good clinical nursing care. Nutrition: A Handbook for Nurses aims to raise awareness and address some of the issues that nurses ill encounter when caring for patients' nutritional needs in a hospital setting. It also highlighted the benefits of a hospital based Nutrition Support Team in providing a multidisciplinary approach to nutrition.

This accessible and practical book explores issues including: malnutrition, nutrition screening and assessment, the nursing role in maintaining patients' oral nutritional intake, enteral and parental nutrition, and the surrounding legal and ethical issues. It will be essential reading for all nurses working in hospital settings.