Introduction
In the nursing profession, nurses are required to offer quality and professional services to patients; nursing ethics require practitioners to do much they can to facilitate patients’ fast recovery. Healthy nutrition is an important part of the recovery process; it offers patients the right quantities of macronutrients and micronutrients necessary for fast recovery. This paper discusses how I (nurse) can use nutrition in my profession.
Discussion
Nurses take care of different patients suffering from different diseases, depending on the disease, there may be some food that can be more beneficial to a patient while others may not be; on the other hand, some patients have conditions that does not limit them from using any kind of food.
When offering nursing services, it is of crucial importance to recognize the differences in the categories of patients so that when making feeding decisions, the right combination is used. For example, when dealing with a malnutrition case, nurses should be more on macronutrients that contain calories (energy): proteins, carbohydrates, and fats, to the patients, when such foods are used, they are more likely to facilitate quick recovery and quality services.
When a nurse is dealing with liver problems, the main issue to consider is how to intoxicate the liver, some foods can be used alongside the medications to facilitate the healing process, they are foods that will detoxify the liver. In the same process, if such a patient is given food with high contents of spices and chemicals, then the recovery may be delayed.
Dealing with the nutrition only is in itself a standing profession that can earn someone a living; different situations, health status, age, and activities requires different nutrition for their effectiveness; this opens a chance of an opportunity to consult people for a living.
However, coming to the picture of nurses, other than offering the nursing care at hospitals, nurses should advise their patients and their caregivers, in the hospital or when at home, on the right food they should give their patients and by extension the family. Doing this fulfills the noble goal of improving health among communities. The nurse will be acting ethically and using his/her profession to add value to the community.
An old saying states that “we are what we eat”, this means that if people were to eat healthily, then society would have an improved living conditions. Healthy nations are far more productive than one that does not have the quality of life; in such nations, the government will focus on improving the living conditions other than providing basic health facilities.
When nurses invest in giving the right nutritional food to patients according to their health conditions, then the patients are prone to benefit in a variety of ways they include:
- Patients will have a quick recovery from disease: other than hunger satisfaction, food have the medicinal benefit to the body so when the right food is given then patients will recover fast
- Healthy eating will lead to improved health to a patient; this is when followed after leaving a health facility, nurses should offer patients advice on the right food they should take after leaving the hospital
- From a macro level, when nutritious foods are eaten, they can prevent some diseases thus improving health conditions among communities
Conclusion
For healthy living, human beings need to eat nutritious foods; this is whether someone is sick or not. When one has eaten healthy, his/her immune system is boosted making him/her healthy; a healthy nation is a productive nation. Nurses should ensure their patients are fed the right nutrition to facilitate their recovery.