Pediatric Patients: A Case Study

On Monday, our supervisor gave us other policies and procedures of the clinical nutrition department

1- Nutritional Screening, Assessment, Follow up and Reassessment The patients who admitted to the hospital are screened by nursing staff using the MUST tool for adult and STAMP tool for pediatric patients. The patients referred to dietitians when they consider as at risk of malnutrition. The nutritional services receive referrals between 8:00am to 4:30pm during weekdays from Sunday to Thursday. The patients are arranged according to their risk which are high, moderate and low for malnutrition and long-term non-critical patients. To use a STAMP the employee should follow many steps which are:

1- Diagnosis

2- Nutritional intake

3- Weight and

The central stores will issue enteral formula supplies base on the written directive form of the clinical dietitians or diet technician to the patients. Additionally, the clinical dietitians or diet technician should issue to supplies for one to three months’ supplies for patients who eligible Jeddah residents, two to three months’ supply for patients who living outside Jeddah.

3- Diet and Food: Ordering, Routinely available, and Choices The purpose of this policy is to ensure that a variety of food choices, appropriate for the patient’s nutritional status and consisted with his or her clinical care, are regularly available. Furthermore, to ensure that food is appropriate for the patient’s age, according to

There are two types of committee. The first type is a standing committee which is a permanent committee that meets regularly, assigned by the chief clinical nutrition services. The second type is a special committee which is a temporary committee formed to deal with a specific task or issue as the need arises and is disbanded upon acceptance of its final report and/or when the issue is resolved. The committee members are the coordinator, co-coordinator, committee member, gust member and resource member. The chief clinical nutrition services will select the best available and qualified employee. Furthermore, the section of committee members should be based on the member’s position as related to the committee purpose. The committee member expected to cooperate with each other to achieve the committees’ goals. In addition, all members must attend the meetings. In case of absenteeism with no reason for two or more consecutive meetings, the chief will take the necessary disciplinary actions. The coordinator who responsible to prepare the agenda. Additionally, the agenda should contain the topics that will be discussed or presented at the meeting. Then it is should be distributed to the committee members at least one day prior to the regular meetings to follow the assigned tasks. During the meeting, the