Therapeutic nutrition - is the nutrition of a person in illness and convalescence. It is an integral part of curative and preventive care and significantly influences the healing process.
Nutritional screening - is used for basic assessment of the nutritional status of patients. It is carried out by non-medical health professionals within the scope of their professional competence. Rehabilitation hospitals are among the healthcare facilities that actively look for malnutrition in all hospitalised patients and minimise the risk of malnutrition through various interventions. The aim is to reduce or eliminate malnutrition and its consequences.
Nutritional therapists - are health professionals trained in nutrition in health care settings. They formulate diets for all types of diets encountered in the hospital, provide dietary norming, and provide consultation for inpatients and outpatients.
They assess the daily dietary intake of malnourished patients, recommend food supplements (sipping, protein supplements, etc.), and educate the patient and family about necessary and appropriate nutrition in collaboration with the attending physician.
Nutrition team - the responsibility of the nutrition team is to monitor the nutrition of hospitalized patients, to address the comments of patients and staff on the food served. The team members have the right to consult medical records, make records, conduct internal audits related to nutrition, evaluate the status of nutritional care and propose recommendations to the attending physicians for the prevention of malnutrition.
Composition of the nutrition team:
Physician = Nutrition Team Leader
AD HOC - Attending Physician
Clinical Biochemist
Nutritional therapist
Head nurse
For information for staff, patients and family members on dietary measures and recommendations, please contact the nutritional therapists at 311 745 235 or email: strava@nember.cz
Food Service Manager: Petr Ťetek
Nutritional therapist: Johanka Šlapáková DiS
