Therapeutic Diets
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Nothing fancy or sexy about this cheatsheet. . . drum roll. . . . therapeutic diets.
I told you.
But, patients diets play a tremendous role in overall management of the patient's disease process or recovery.
As a neuro nurse we deal with stoke patients that must progress through a very rigid sequence of diets as they recover. Skipping a step or not adhering to a prescribed diet can result in aspiration and death.
This sheet addresses 10 of the most common diets you will see ordered for your patients from NPO to consistent carb.
My recommendation would be to print this page out and just keep it with you on the floor so that as you take report on your patient and learn what diet they are on you can be sure to only provide the foods/liquids they can have.
