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Starting a Nutrition Support Team Short‐Term Pain for Long‐Term Gain
Author(s) -
Tougas Jane Grant
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
nutrition in clinical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1941-2452
pISSN - 0884-5336
DOI - 10.1177/0115426594009006221
Subject(s) - medicine , term (time) , politics , nursing , public relations , medical education , political science , physics , quantum mechanics , law
This article relates the collective wisdom of five nutrition support professionals who share their experience in starting a nutrition support team. These professionals describe how to navigate the administrative— and political—waters, which are often murky and filled with obstacles. In addition, a hospital administrator discloses what CEO types look for when clinicians propose starting up a nutrition support team in their institutions. The upshot: In this rapidly changing environment, nutrition support professionals would do well to hone their political skills and use them to persuade their administrators that nutrition support is indeed a cost‐effective therapy that benefits patients—and that it is best delivered in an interdisciplinary approach.