CHAPTER 09 | Identify Nutrition Problems and Honor Client Rights Table 9.3
Common Weight Monitoring Equations Percentage of Usual Body Weight
(Current Weight ÷ Usual Body Weight) x 100 Percentage of Weight Change
[(Previous Weight — Current Weight) / Previous Weight] x 100 Diet Records VIEW RESOURCE:
Food Frequency Questionnaire
Meal planning details that appear in a nutrition care document include the physician’s diet order, a list of food likes and dislikes, the diet order, whether the client is following a specific diet/menu plan from home, and any special requests or needs. Foodservice staff use this information when planning individual menus for each meal. In some long-term care facilities, food preferences are recorded on a printed menu for each client or a tray card, which accompanies a tray typically along a conveyor or pushed along a meal counter where the food is held for serving during tray assembly. In other facilities, nutrition care documents are maintained in a dietary computer system. The menu itself is also a critical nutrition care document. Whether done by computer or by hand, the foodservice staff review menu offerings or nutritionally equivalent alternatives for clients and ensure that each meal offered meets the diet order and client preferences.
The menu itself is a critical nutrition care document.
After reviewing weight records and diet histories, the next step is to identify clients who meet the criteria for significant weight loss or those who are having obvious problems eating. The CDM, CFPP would share this nutrition screening information with the RDN or NDTR, and share it with the interdisciplinary team at the care plan meeting.
Putting it
into Practice Refer to the Supplemental Materials for answer.
1. A client’s diet order would typically be listed in what section of the health record?
Nutrition Fundamentals and Medical Nutrition Therapy