Listening, sharing and supporting each other

With Halloween and Guy Fawkes night celebrations now memories, we move quickly on to planning for the season to be jolly and all that the New Year encompasses. But just before we head into the sparkle and lights of festivities, the world of nutrition has the month of November – our moment to help nutrition sparkle!

All nurses have a part to play in a patient's nutrition pathway. Part of our role as nutrition nurses is to help nutrition stay at the heart of nursing and November is the month when we assess, audit and make the all-important action plans to reinvigorate and generate quality improvement plans to generate enthusiasm for the year ahead.

The powerful partnership between the Malnutrition Task Force and BAPEN brought us Malnutrition Awareness Week this month, helping to bring the multidisciplinary team together to illustrate the BAPEN values ‘Listen, Lead, Share and Support’ (BAPEN, 2023):