Specifics of nutrition for non-healing wounds in hospitalization care

This BA thesis deals with specifics of nutrition for non-healing wounds in hospitalization care. Defining the terms "nutrition in hospitals" and "clinical nutrition and its most significant aspects" was the theoretical background for the empirical part of the thesis. Since clinical nutrition is a very broad field, the theoretical part was only focused on the most significant aspects which characterize the specifics of nutrition for non-healing wounds in hospitalization care. Furthermore, the theoretical part of the thesis focuses on description of skin anatomy and physiology to enable full understanding of the consequences of skin integrity damage. The scope of nutritional support also depends on the type and size of the wound, which are described in the theoretical part. The empirical part compares nutritional care of two patients with a vast devastating wound. Both case studies describe the extent and process of nutritional intervention, which can be used as a methodological plan of nutritional care. In nutritional intervention special attention is given to the education of the patient and his family members regarding the patient's nutrition. The aim of these education processes is to prove or disprove a general expert assumption about the effects of education and support of the patient's family members on the patient's treatment and cooperation