Basic practicing conditions of Clinical Nutrition Department

Article 6 The Clinical Nutrition Department shall have conditions such as places, facilities, instruments and equipment, and personnel appropriate to its functions and tasks.

Article 7 The Clinical Nutrition Department shall set up a medical area and a nutrition therapy preparation area. Medical area should include nutrition clinic, nutrition metabolism laboratory; nutrition therapy preparation area should include therapeutic diet preparation room, enteral nutrition preparation room, the conditions are ripe for the establishment of medical institutions parenteral nutrition preparation room. Hospitals with conditions can set up nutrition wards.

Article VIII of the Clinical Nutrition Division staffing and job setup should meet the complete clinical nutrition diagnosis and treatment process and support the need for security. Among them, the total number of clinical nutrition professionals (physicians, technicians, nurses) and hospital bed ratio of not less than 1: 100, clinical nutrition professionals in the clinical category of the number of licensed physicians and hospital bed ratio of not less than 1:200, the number of nurses is not less than three. Nutrition ward nurses should be configured to meet the medical institutions ward nurse configuration standards.

Article IX Director of Clinical Nutrition is responsible for the medical, teaching, research and administrative management of the department, is the first person responsible for the quality of clinical nutrition and discipline construction. Clinical nutrition department director for full-time. Tertiary hospitals can be deputy senior technical title qualification or with intermediate technical title qualification and continuously engaged in clinical nutrition diagnosis and treatment of more than 5 years as a person; second-level hospitals can be the director of clinical nutrition by medical undergraduate education and above, the corresponding medical specialty of the intermediate technical title qualification or with the junior technical title qualification and continuously engaged in clinical nutrition diagnosis and treatment of more than 3 years as a person. The director may be the director of the medical specialty with undergraduate degree or above, or the director of the medical specialty with technical title of intermediate or above, or with technical title of junior or above, who has been engaged in clinical nutrition for more than 3 years. Qualified medical institutions should meet the above conditions at the same time by the clinical category of licensed physicians as the director of clinical nutrition.

Article 10 Nutrition Physician shall be qualified as a licensed clinical physician, and through the clinical nutrition professional education or professional training and qualified, fully responsible for the work of nutritional diagnosis and treatment.

Article XI nutrition technician shall have nutrition, medicine, testing, health, food and other related professional specialties above the degree, through the clinical nutrition professional training and assessment of qualified, responsible for nutritional counseling, nutritional testing, nutritional screening and evaluation, enteral nutrition preparation and therapeutic meal preparation and other technical work.

Article XII Nutrition nurse shall have the qualification of clinical nurse, after the clinical nutrition professional training and qualified, and is responsible for nutrition-related nursing work and the prevention and control of hospital infections in the department, the preparation of enteral parenteral nutrition preparation, the establishment and maintenance of nutritional pipeline, nutritional counseling, nutritional testing, nutritional evaluation and other technical work.

Article XIII of the Clinical Nutrition Department shall be equipped with a variety of instruments and equipment required for nutritional testing and evaluation, nutritional therapy.