Clinical nutrition department is a different physiological and pathological state (including disease and medical factors caused by) nutrition metabolism changes in people, through nutritional testing and evaluation of nutritional diagnosis, the use of various types of enteral nutrition preparations, parenteral nutrition preparations and therapeutic diets, such as nutritional treatment of clinical operations department.
The bed nutrition department should set up medical area and 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. Conditional hospitals can set up nutrition wards.
ExpandedNutrition technicians should have nutrition, medicine, testing, health, food and other related professional specialties above the academic level, 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.
Nutrition nurses shall be qualified as clinical nurses, trained and qualified in clinical nutrition, and be responsible for nutrition-related nursing work and the prevention and control of hospital infections in the department, the preparation of enteral parenteral nutritional preparations, nutritional counseling, nutritional testing, nutritional evaluation and other technical work. Clinical nutrition department should be equipped with a variety of instruments and equipment required for nutritional testing and evaluation, nutritional therapy.
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