Clinically enhancing nursing practice. Improving feeding skills

1. The aim of nurses assisting elders with eating is to maintain the resident's existing abilities or recover, as much as possible, lost abilities. 2. The findings of this study indicated that nurses did not understand the importance of sitting while feeding elderly residents. 3. More than one quarter (28%) of the nursing staff surveyed were unable to identify age-related changes that may increase the possibility of choking.