Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

CiteULike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references - click here to get started.

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by McCrann McShane, C.
Right arrow Articles by Fox, H. M.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by McCrann McShane, C.
Right arrow Articles by Fox, H. M.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Nutrition Support Teams—A 1983 Survey

Carol McCrann McShane, R.N., R.D., M.S.

College of Nursing-Lincoln Division, University of Nebraska Medical Center

Hazel M. Fox, PH.D., R.D.

Department of Human Nutrition and Food Service Management, College of Home Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska

Nutrition support teams (NST) in a variety of public and private US hospitals were surveyed in the spring of 1983. A mailed questionnaire elicited information from 521 previously identified teams. The intent was to survey the characteristics of hospitals with NST, the structure and function of NST and the attitudes of coworkers regarding NST. The questionnaire was designed to facilitate individual team communication of successes and admonitions regarding team initiation and function. Nutrition support teams from 267 of 521 (51.6% ) hospitals responded. Teams, multidisciplinary in composition, were located most frequently in 200 to 500-bed private, non-profit hospitals. Financial arrangements and the scope of service rendered varied. Attitudes about NST reflected some problems with attending physicians' skepticism, rivalry, and ignorance. Other hospital professionals' attitudes were reported as supportive with reservations. Comments, penned by 90% of respondents, indicated a solid, positive concern for developing nutritional expertise, productive teamwork, and support from fellow care-givers. Generally, NST were found to be in a period of growth and essentially healthy. (Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition 9:263-268, 1985)

Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, Vol. 9, No. 3, 263-268 (1985)
DOI: 10.1177/0148607185009003263
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 JPEN J Parenter Enteral NutrHome page
S. M. Traeger, G. B. Williams, G. Milliren, D. S. Young, M. Fisher, and M. T. Haug III
Total Parenteral Nutrition by a Nutrition Support Team: Improved Quality of Care
JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr, July 1, 1986; 10(4): 408 - 412.
[Abstract] [PDF]