Nutrition Care Process: Elements for its implementation and use by Nutrition and Dietetics Professionals
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https://doi.org/10.14306/renhyd.24.2.961Keywords:
Nutritionists, Nutrition Therapy, Standard of Care, Reference Standards, Process Assessment, Health Care, Clinical Decision-Making, Terminology as Topic, dietitians, nutrition care process, dietetic care process.Abstract
Introduction: The Nutrition Care Process (NCP) and NCP Terminology (NCPT) provides a performance protocol that allows encouraging critical thinking, promoting evidence-based professional practice, documenting it, measuring outcomes and evaluating the quality of nutritional care. Objective: To increase awareness of using NCP and NCPT, its basic elements, application in nutritional care in professionals of Nutrition and Dietetics and evaluating its international implementation.Material and methods: A review of the published works about NCP and NCPT in English and Spanish. Search terms: Nutrition Care Process, Dietetic Care Process, Standardized Terminology, Proceso/Plan de Atención/Cuidado Nutricional/Dietético and TE. It was not limited by date of publication and those articles with low scientific evidence or with changes from the original model were excluded.
Results: The NCP provides a holistic approach and contributes to improving the quality of nutritional care, the exchange information and nutritional follow-up. The implementation of the NCP improves the productivity of those professionals, who are using it, and furthermore, promotes and strengthens the functions of the Nutrition professional in clinical-community healthcare settings.
Conclusions: NCP and NCPT are internationally recognized tools to promote the professional practice in the clinical-community setting and nutritional research, emphasizing the requirement to include it in the academic curriculum and the professional practice of Nutrition and Dietetics.
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