Assessing food insecurity: What nurses should know
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Jacqueline K. Debrew, Clinical Associate Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: A female patient with diabetes was treated in the ED after repeated episodes of hypoglycemiawithout an obvious cause. A nursing assessment revealed that she knows how she should eat tomanage her blood glucose levels, but by the middle of the month, she does not have the financialmeans to purchase both food and medication. When faced with a choice between food andinsulin, she thought it was best to choose insulin and limit herself to one meal a day. She isexperiencing food insecurity, a patient scenario that is not uncommon. This article describes aquality improvement (QI) project to determine the level of knowledge about food insecurityamong acute care nurses and how they are addressing it in their patients.
Assessing food insecurity: What nurses should know
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Simon, K. & DeBrew, J. (2021) Assessing food insecurity: what nurses should know. Nursing 2021, 51(3), 17-19. *co-authored with RN-BSN student
- Language: English
- Date: 2021
- Keywords
- food insecurity, nursing, communities, assessment