THE NUTRITION CARE PROCESS STEP I:
NUTRITION ASSESSMENT
DEFINITION
Nutrition assessment may include
5 domains of nutrition assessment
Systematic gathering, verifying and interpreting of data needed to identify nutrition-related-problems
medical records
focus groups
observations
key imformants
epidemiologic tudies
community forum
community based survey
information gained from other healthcare provider or agencies
interviewing
Biochemical Data, Medical Tests and Procedures
Nutrition - Focused Physical Finding
Anthropometric Measurement
Client History
Food/Nutrition - Related History
Critical thinking
Required for good diagnostic reasoning and clinical judgment
Examples of critical thinking skills are:
Determining appropriate data to collect about your clients
Determining the need for additional information for your
clients
Selecting assessment tools and procedures that match the
situation and alternate possibilities
Applying assessment tools in valid and reliable ways
Distinguish relevant and irrelevant data
Validating data
Very important for the selection, collection & interpretation
of relevant data