患者の食生活援助への看護婦の意識と看護婦の食生活との関係

The Relations between Nurses' Dietary Awareness and Its' Habit for the Supporting Care on Patients' Dietary Behavior

目的

　著者たちは看護教育にたずさわる者として看護婦が看護の対象となる人々に対して，“対象者が自分自身で健康な食生活を営む力を育む方向に行動を変化させることができ，また治療的効果を高めることはもとより，その人らしい食生活を送れるように援助すること”ができる力を得るためには，どのようなカリキュラムが望ましいかについて検討をすすめてきた^{1, 2）}．

　本研究はその一環として行ったものである．

Abstract

　The objective of this study was to investigate on the actual condition of the nurses dietary awareness and its' hablt, supporting care for patient's dieatry habit and to clarify the mutual relations between them.

　For this aim we did a questionnaire survey concerning"Nursing Care for Patients' Behavior" to 110 nurses who have participated in a post-graduated training course sponsored by Japanese Nursing Association. The following results were obtained.

1. In the actual situation of nurses' dietary habit, they have a deep understanding of their own dietary behavior, they take little of a staple food group.

2. The supporting behavior in clinical practice has a first priority on checking the physiological condition of the patient. However, the nurse's supportive conduct is less in the sight for the daily diet.

3. On the mutual relations between nurses' presonal dietary management and the supporting ability for the patients' diet and nutrition, a nurse who is a little capability of supporting for it, tend to be less conscious of their own dietry balance.

　In conclusion, to improve the nurses' ability for supporting patients' dietary behavior is needed to raise the awareness on the part of the nurses about their own diet.