Moving Beyond the Scale: Guidance for Food Equity-Oriented Nurse Engagement in Education, Research and Community Care

To provide guidance on food equity-oriented nurse engagement in education, research, and practice and to develop a glossary of food equity terms to serve as a resource to nurse educators and to fuel nurse engagement in food equity work.

A discussion paper outlining guidance for nurse engagement in food equity efforts.

We provide guidance for nurse engagement in three areas: Education, Research and Community Care. Additionally, through literature review, we created a glossary of food-related terms that can be used in nurse advocacy for food equity. Although not an exhaustive list, we compiled and provided definitions of equity-oriented food-related concepts across three categories: food environment, consumer/community-based and social safety net/anti-hunger terms.

Nurses can be instrumental in advancing food equity, thereby helping to prevent chronic diseases related to poor nutrition, yet nutrition and food equity content are not typically integrated into nursing education.

No patient or public contribution.