Evaluating the Malnutrion Universal Screening Tool as a ...

1 Working Papers in the Health Sciences 1:12 Summer 2015 ISSN 2051-6266 / 20150073 Introduction The nursing process has four components, Assessment, Planning, Implementation and Evaluation. Aggleton and Chalmers (2000) describe it as a tool that has four stages. In the assessment stage both nurse and patient work together to establish the needs and desires of the patient. In the planning stage steps are identified to meet the needs. These steps then require implementation in the third stage and then finally evaluation, where the planning and implementation is reviewed and assessed. In the paper I am going to focus on the Assessment and Planning elements of the Nursing Process. This will allow exploration of how, and why, assessment is vital to providing high quality and personalised nursing care and the implications of this in planning care to meet an essential care definition of a need is a necessity or urgent requirement (OED, 2014).

Then, go on to appraise the evidence related to the MUST, nutrition and the holistic care approach. The paper will end by discussing the use of the MUST in terms of holistic care provided to Mr Allen and the future direction of the tool. Evaluating the Malnutrion Universal Screening Tool as a holistic client assessment and Critically

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