The main types of nutrition support services that are available from home health dietitians and nurses include:
Written by admin@pcpierce.com on March 21, 2011. Posted in Home Health
- Specialized Diet Planning: Home care dietitians create individualized plans to address each patient’s illness and special health needs. The home health care dietitians take into consideration each patient’s unique lifestyle to create a healthy diet plan for their needs. Home health care dietitians can also provide nutrition education for patients and their families that focus on nutrition concerns and each patient’s particular illness.
- Enteral Nutrition: Enteral Nutrition is a nutrition support service for patients who are not able to receive nutrients by mouth but do have functioning digestive tracts. With enteral nutrition support, an individual receives nutrition through a feeding tube placed in the patient’s stomach or intestine. This service is commonly needed by stoke patients who have trouble swallowing, patients with neuromuscular diseases, or patients with head or neck cancer.
- Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN): Total Parenteral Nutrition is for patients who are unable to receive nutrients by mouth or feeding tube. This form of nutrition support uses IV infusion therapy to supply patients with a balanced amount of calories, vitamins, minerals, proteins, and fats as prescribed by their physician.