Nurse-Led Nutritional Screening Improves Identification of Patients at Risk for Malnutrition

Equipping oncology nurses to conduct nutritional screening assessments can help reduce barriers and close gaps in the timely identification of patients with cancer who are at risk for or experiencing malnutrition, investigators reported in an article published in the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing. Implementing a standardized, nurse-led screening process helped their community cancer center identify that nearly 40% of their screened patients were at risk for malnutrition, while also increasing nurses’ comfort with and knowledge of cancer-related nutrition.