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We investigated the nutritional status of patients who were hospitalized and how to improve their overall nutrition during their stay. There are many things that we discovered about this topic including the fact that the patients nutritional status is a big predicting factor of their health outcomes. Longer hospital stays can be due to poor nutritional outcomes. One of the studies that we looked at stated that patients who were malnourished stayed in the hospital for an average of 5…

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My knowledge of delirium and preventative factors didn’t really change throughout my involvement in this program. Just that there are many preventative factors that you can help the patient with, so they don’t develop a delirious state. Something as simple as waking the patient from a daytime nap will help them sleep better at night and potentially prevent delirium. Another thing that is helpful to the patients may be starting your conversation with something like “good morning, happy Friday, it’s…

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