Excellent resource for nursing homes or hospitals. Updated edition includes new information on food code, food safety/sanitation, nutrition/unintended weight loss, person-centered dining, and Nutrition Care Process. A great time saver, this manual provides step by step guidelines to ensure that regulatory, nutritional, dietary needs are met for optimal health of individuals in your care.
New Policies and Procedures Include:
Menus and Therapeutic Diets: RDN order-writing, Resident's right to refuse a diet, Resident's choice meals
Food Production and Food Safety: Inventory and Cost control, Food Safety-Preventing burns
Sanitation and Infection Control: Foods brought in from outside the facility
Personnel Training: Facility-wide in-service training and Resource-Facilitation adult learning
