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Introduction of mealtime volunteers in a district general hospital.

Carolyn Sneddon1, Joanne Best.   

Abstract

This article describes the introduction of volunteers in a small district general hospital to assist patients with their meals. Training provided to prospective volunteers, the introduction of mealtime volunteers to the wards and their effect on patients' mealtime experience are outlined. The article also discusses issues that arose during this process, how these issues were resolved and plans to expand the service in the future.

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Year:  2011        PMID： 22324236     DOI： 10.7748/ns2011.12.26.15.37.c8871

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Nurs Stand        ISSN： 0029-6570


  4 in total

Review 1.  The Impact of Trained Volunteer Mealtime Assistants on Dietary Intake and Satisfaction with Mealtime Care in Adult Hospital Inpatients: A Systematic Review.

Authors:  F F A Howson; A A Sayer; H C Roberts
Journal:  J Nutr Health Aging       Date:  2017       Impact factor: 4.075

2.  The Impact of Trained Volunteer Mealtime Assistants on the Dietary Intake of Older Female In-Patients: The Southampton Mealtime Assistance Study.

Authors:  H C Roberts; A L Pilgrim; K A Jameson; C Cooper; A A Sayer; S Robinson
Journal:  J Nutr Health Aging       Date:  2017       Impact factor: 4.075

3.  Hospital Volunteering Experiences Suggest that New Policies are Needed to Promote their Integration in Daily Care: Findings from a Qualitative Study.

Authors:  Silvia Gonella; Federica Canzan; Enrico Larghero; Elisa Ambrosi; Alvisa Palese; Valerio Dimonte
Journal:  Zdr Varst       Date:  2019-10-01

4.  The feasibility and acceptability of training volunteer mealtime assistants to help older acute hospital inpatients: the Southampton Mealtime Assistance Study.

Authors:  Helen C Roberts; Sanet De Wet; Kirsty Porter; Gemma Rood; Norma Diaper; Judy Robison; Anna L Pilgrim; Marinos Elia; Alan A Jackson; Cyrus Cooper; Avan Aihie Sayer; Sian Robinson
Journal:  J Clin Nurs       Date:  2014-03-25       Impact factor: 3.036
  4 in total

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