Therapeutic Diets - Online Inservice
This online inservice familiarizes long term care nursing assistants, CNA's, nurse aides, and home health aides with the basic concepts of therapeutic diets, including the types of therapeutic diets that may be ordered for a resident, the role therapeutic diets play in the treatment of residents, and which foods and beverages are allowed and restricted on therapeutic diets. Proper understanding of therapeutic diets will help minimize the risk of disease and other health conditions and reduce the risk of injury.
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Objectives
Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:
- Discuss why a therapeutic diet would be ordered for a resident
- Demonstrate correct procedure when a resident asks for food or a beverage
- Describe a mechanically altered diet
- Summarize each of the therapeutic diets
Curriculum
Chapter 1: Overview of Therapeutic Diets
Chapter 2: Therapeutic Diets
- Regular Diet
- NAS (No Added Salt)/2 Gram Sodium Diet
- High Fiber Diet
- Low Residue/Fiber Diet
- High Calorie Diet
- High Protein Diet
- GI Soft Diet
- Therapeutic Lifestyle Change/Cardiac Diet (Fat Controlled/No Added Salt)
- Low Fat/Fat Controlled Diet
- Diabetic/Consistent Carbohydrate Diet
- Renal Diet
- Gluten Free Diet
- Mechanical Soft (Dental Soft) Diet
- Pureed Diet
- National Dysphagia Diet (NDD)
- Clear Liquid Diet
- Full Liquid Diet
Price: $10.00
Contact Hour: 1
Course Author
Corinne Kantor
Corinne Kantor, DTR, CLT, is a Registered Dietetic Technician, Certified LEAP (Lifestyle Eating and Performance) Therapist, and award-winning writer. She has undergraduate degrees in dietetics and journalism. Corinne also has her ServSafe Certification from the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation and is a certified U.S. Diabetes Conversation Map Facilitator.
Read Full BioCourse Accreditation
Provider approved by the California Department of Public Health, Nurse Aide Certification (NAC) #: 7046. This document must be retained by the certified nurse assistant for a period of four years after the course completion. Provider approved by the Florida, New Hampshire, and Wyoming Board of Nursing-Certified Nursing Assistants, CE Broker Provider #: 50-13256.