Nutrition Care Manual Site Redesign

• Complete redesign of all the Nutrition Care Manual (NCM) sites, including “home page” functions, easier navigation, content reorganization, additional customization features, and much more!
• Easy to navigate on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
• NCM home page keeps track of the items you search for the most and allows you to add quick links to facility pages and other pages of the NCM.
• All client education/diet materials will be located in one centralized location and organized by condition topics.
• Customize and save NCM menus to make them specific to your facility or practice.
• Link menu items to the USDA nutrient database for more complete nutrient analysis of menus.
• Opt to quickly print the entire client education sheet and menu, or pick and choose which sections you want to print.

New Content     

• Nutrition-focused physical exam guidelines added under Malnutrition Coding
• New Energy Expenditure in Acute Care and Critical Care section
• New food safety content for older adults, pregnancy, and immunocompromised
• New conditions associated with Diabetes and Complications under Diabetes section, which will now include gastroparesis
• New combined client education for chronic kidney disease and diabetes nutrition therapy
• New Spanish translations added, including nutrient lists

Other Important Updates

• Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis: Revised and expanded, including additional references and incorporation of the Nutrition Care Process (NCP) and IDNT terminology.
• Kidney Stones: Revised and expanded, including stone composition and nutrition therapy, additional references, and incorporation of the NCP and IDNT terminology.
• Long-Term Care: Revised and expanded, including additional references and incorporation of the NCP and IDNT terminology.
• Malnutrition Coding: Revised and expanded, including new Nutrition- Focused Physical Exam table.
• Nutrition Support: Revised and expanded, including updated guidelines, monitoring and evaluation parameters for enteral nutrition, general fluid requirements, and incorporation of EAL guidelines throughout.
• Gastrointestinal conditions: Updated and revised client education for various conditions.