Food and nutritional care in hospitals guidelines for preventing under-nutrition in acute hospitals

Hdl Handle:: http://hdl.handle.net/10147/85517
Title:: Food and nutritional care in hospitals guidelines for preventing under-nutrition in acute hospitals
Authors:: Department of Health and Children (DOHC)
Publisher:: Department of Health and Children (DOHC)
Issue Date:: Apr-2009
URI:: http://hdl.handle.net/10147/85517
Item Type:: Guideline
Language:: en
Description:: The aim of this document is: • To increase awareness of the serious problem of under-nutrition in Irish hospitals. • To document guidelines for managing nutrition in Irish acute adult hospitals. • To issue recommendations which help to ensure that assessment of nutritional status and requirements, hospital food, nutritional support and monitoring are regarded as important and necessary parts of patient care. • To provide minimum nutritional guidelines for the provision of hospital food and to outline the responsibilities of all staff members in treating and preventing undernutrition. • To consider how the Health Service Executive-Corporate (especially Population Health and the National Hospitals Office), hospital managers, food service providers and healthcare professionals might work together to improve the nutritional care and support of hospitalised patients.
Keywords:: NUTRITION; NUTRITION EDUCATION; HOSPITAL; HEALTH PROMOTION

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DC Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Department of Health and Children (DOHC)	en
dc.date.accessioned	2009-11-06T09:29:48Z	-
dc.date.available	2009-11-06T09:29:48Z	-
dc.date.issued	2009-04	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10147/85517	-
dc.description	The aim of this document is: • To increase awareness of the serious problem of under-nutrition in Irish hospitals. • To document guidelines for managing nutrition in Irish acute adult hospitals. • To issue recommendations which help to ensure that assessment of nutritional status and requirements, hospital food, nutritional support and monitoring are regarded as important and necessary parts of patient care. • To provide minimum nutritional guidelines for the provision of hospital food and to outline the responsibilities of all staff members in treating and preventing undernutrition. • To consider how the Health Service Executive-Corporate (especially Population Health and the National Hospitals Office), hospital managers, food service providers and healthcare professionals might work together to improve the nutritional care and support of hospitalised patients.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Department of Health and Children (DOHC)	en
dc.subject	NUTRITION	en
dc.subject	NUTRITION EDUCATION	en
dc.subject	HOSPITAL	en
dc.subject	HEALTH PROMOTION	en
dc.title	Food and nutritional care in hospitals guidelines for preventing under-nutrition in acute hospitals	en
dc.type	Guideline	en