While nutrition is important throughout life, it is particularly vital that infants get off to a good start. Here, JCN looks at the knowledge community nurses need to provide best practice...

With all the things community nurses need to think about when visiting patients — continence status; support from friends and family; wound care; smoking cessation, to name but a few — it is easy to see how nutritional status might come some way  down the list. After all, it’s pretty easy to tell if a patient is dangerously underweight or drifting into obesity isn’t it? All you have to do is look at them...