Question

why do nurses need to have a thorough understanding of vitamins? what is a scenario the role and sources of vitamins would be essential for good patient care?

Answer 1

Vitamins are a group of substances that are needed for normal cell function,growth and development.vitamine deficency cause health problems. Nurses have the expertise and responsibility to ensure that patient and clients needs are met and also that help to identify nutritional problems and assessing nutritional status of patient in clinical setting.Developing diet plan and counselling with patient on special diet modification.many patient will be on special diet during their hospitalization. In that time nurses can also gather informative and accurate literature to give patients when they are discharged. Health care providers have the role to inform patient and their relatives  that nutrition and vitamine supplements play in the privention and treatement of chronic disease such as cancer,heart diseases,osteoporosis and neural tube defect etc..So healthy food choice are vital to preventing illnesses.The full range of vitamine and mineral requrements and  micronutrients in all including their role in normal human physilogy and metabolism and condition of deficiencies these included focasing on reversing the requirement for esstential vitiamins,minerals and micro-nutrients.A daily diet of varied foods can provide needed essential vitamins for maintaing health but in hospitalized patient have admitted with different condition based on that provide proper daily dietery plan ,instruction, advise and implement dietary recommendationsand improve their health.