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Nutritional Risk Screening System

Screening nutritional risk is an easy and effective way to track the nutritional status of aged care residents.

The Nutritional Risk Screening System

The Nutritional Risk Screening System is the world's only integrated system for screening nutritional risk that includes both care processes and accountability processes.

Care Processes
Includes the screening of the resident, and the identification, implementation and evaluation of any interventions that may be required.

Accountability Processes
Includes both auditing facility performance and benchmarking performance with other unrelated facilities.

The Nutritional Risk Screening System

The Nutritional Risk Screening System is divided into Care Processes and Accountability Processes as follows:

1. Care Processes
   -:- NRS System Tool
   Categorizes each residents nutritional risk as low, moderate or high.
   
   -:- NRS System Management Strategies
   Explains what to do after applying the Tool.
   
   -:- NRS System Monitoring & Evaluation Form
   Tracks and assesses intervention effectiveness
   
   -:- NRS System Interventions Administration Guide
   Describes and guides the administration of Level 1, 2 and 3 interventions.
   
   
2. Accountability Processes
   -:- NRS System Audits
   Templates distinguish high and low care and track in-facility performance.
   
   -:- NRS System Benchmarking Service
   Distinguishes high and low care and compares performance with external organizations.

Benefits:

The many benefits of introducing an integrated nutritional risk identification and management system include:

1. Cost Savings
   
   Early identification of changing nutritional risk status permits earlier intervention, proper use of nutrition support products and appropriate referrals to dietitians.
   
   Residential aged care requires systems. The ready made fully integrated Nutritional Risk Screening System saves you the time, expense, effort (and potential error) of developing policies, procedures and accountability processes from scratch.
   
   
2. Documentation
   
   Documentation supports compliance with Standard 2:10 Nutrition & Hydration, which prescribes that:
   
   1. Residents nutrition and hydration needs are assessed, documented, regularly reviewed and acted upon;
   2. Residents receive sufficient food and fluid to meet their nutritional requirements.
   
   As documents are already complete or in template form, they require little adjustment for in-house systems.
   
   
3. Improve Quality of Life
   
   Most important of all, earlier interventions mean faster resident recovery and improved well-being.

Advantages

Choosing the best management tool for nutritional risk screening is fraught with problems. As a guide our Nutritional Risk Screening System fits well within the DHA's NatFrame concept of Care Processes and Accountability Processes.

The Nutritional Risk Screening System will require very little extra time to integrate into your organization's system.

Our Nutritional Risk Screening System is quick and easy to complete - and takes about 2 minutes if completed on Resident of the Day.

All sections of this package can be completed by minimal-skilled staff.

The Nutritional Risk Screening System has had it's reliability and validity tested for the residential Aged Care sector.

Nutritional Risk Screening System Products

1. The Nutritional Risk Screening System
   This product comprises two modules.
   
   -:- Module 1: Care Processes & Audits
   A booklet on how to implement the NRS System plus a CD-based suite of printable templates.
   
   -:- Module 2: Module 1 + Benchmarking
   The Care Processes & Audits Module, plus a one-year subscription to the benchmarking service.
   
   

The NRS System Sample Booklet
This product is for consultants, dietitians and nurse advisors who wish to advise their residential aged care clients of the Nutritional Risk Screening System.

 

 

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