Red & Blue Placemats
Many patients require some form of assistance with eating and drinking while in hospital. This ranges from assis- tance with opening packages to fully assisted feeding. If assistance with eating and drinking is not provided when required, patients ’ nutritional status may be compromised. Independence with eating and drinking should be promoted in a safe and supportive way. Wards should be ade- quately staffed at mealtimes and the importance of providing timely and individualised assistance with eating and drinking should be recognised in work allocations At Ryde we have embedded the practice of 3x coloured tray placemats as below to flag patients who require feeding assistance . These can be requested via eMR while placing a patient ’ s diet order. For more information refer to the NSW Health Nutrition Care policy or contact radha.murthi@health.nsw.gov.au
Welcome to Ryde
Ryde Hospital also welcomed the following staff this month:
Katie Mellor
Occupational Therapist
Grace Morris
Clinical Psychologist
Shristi Hingman
Enrolled Nurse
Atha Nasralla
Pharmacist
Larissa Yang
Registered Nurse
Carmen Lo
Registered Nurse
Kiah Flemming
Nurse Manager
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