This customizable document, Nutrition Care Planning, is taken from MCN Healthcare’s Hospice Policy and Procedure Manual. For more than 20 years, MCN has been the health care industry’s leading provider of policy and procedure templates, forms, competencies and other compliance tools.

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Here is some sample content from Nutrition Care Planning:

	PURPOSE: To provide guidelines for Hospice personnel in the provision of appropriate nutrition care. POLICY: Patients with identified nutrition care needs will be referred to an appropriate, qualified nutritional educator, when appropriate. DEFINITION: Nutrition care: The interdisciplinary nature of nutrition care including physicians, nurses, dietitians, pharmacists and others as appropriate: interventions and counseling on appropriate nutrition intake by integrating information form nutrition assessments. Assessment: The comprehensive approach to defining nutrition status, using a...
Second excerpt:
	...will be ordered as part of the plan of care prescribed by the attending physician. The Hospice Admitting personnel will arrange for a nutritional counseling when the patient is at moderate or high nutrition risk, nutrition care planning is complex and Hospice personnel are not able to provide complete nutrition therapies or there is need for a further nutrition assessment by a specially trained and educated clinician. During routine visits, Hospice personnel will continually educate...