Skilled Nursing Facilities

Managing Diet Orders

You can modify textures, special diets, and allergies, and run the Print Change History report for individual residents under Diet Order.

When you have an ADT Integration with PointClickCare, you can view the Diet Order(s) saved to a resident's Electronic Health Record (EHR) under Diet Order and Edit Diet Order screens. You can make updates to the diet order in Nutrition Management, if required.

When the Diet Order Integration is enabled, diet orders entered in a resident's PointClickCare Electronic Health Record (EHR) are updated in Nutrition Management. Updates to the diet order(s) must be made in the resident's PointClickCare EHR, if required. 

Note

If your facility is still using Physician Orders and you have not converted to Orders Management in PointClickCare, the EHR Diet Order Directions field does not populate in Nutrition Management.

  1. Residents tab > Resident Listing.

  2. Click Arrow under Actions column for resident. Select Diet Order.

  3. Do one of the following:

    • To add or remove an allergy, click Change. Select or clear the applicable Allergy(ies) and click Update. 

    • To add or remove a Special Diet(s), click Change. Select or clear the applicable Special Diet(s) and click Update.

    • To add or change a Texture, select the texture from the list for each meal. If the texture is blank for all meals, the texture you select for 1 meal is applied for all meals. You can change the texture for a specific meal, if desired.

  • You can also complete a Diet Order from Resident Details.

  • When Diet Order Integration is enabled, only an Administrator user can update a resident's diet order in Nutrition Management. Any manual changes made to the diet order in Nutrition Management are overwritten on the next update. Changes must be made in the resident's PointClickCare EHR for the diet order to flow properly to Nutrition Management.