- What is an Invalid Diet Order?
- Conditions for an Invalid Diet Order
- How Am I Alerted to an Invalid Diet Order?
- How Do I Resolve an Invalid Diet Order?
What is an Invalid Diet Order?
An invalid diet order is one in which the components of the diet order (diet, texture, fluid) are not valid for the associated person's profile for one of the reasons listed below.
An invalid diet order is typically the result of an EHR message received through your Connect interface when the components in the message conflict with the components in the person's profile.
For the safety of your residents, no personal menu will be calculated when a diet order is invalid, and you are alerted of the invalid diet order for you to take the necessary steps to resolve it accordingly; see Assigning Diet Order (Diet Type, Texture Type, Fluid Type) to Person.
In addition, when a profile has an invalid diet order, the profile is excluded from the diet order census and is excluded from the following reports:
- Tray Menu Ticket (People) Report
- Person-Specific Select Menus Report (People)
- Food, Snacks & Identifier Stickers (People)
- Production Reports
Conditions for an Invalid Diet Order
A diet order is considered invalid if one of the conditions below is met.
Reason: One or more components in the diet order (diet type, texture type, fluid type) is unknown.
Error message: Diet order is invalid due to one or more component being unknown.
Reason: One but not all components is NPO (i.e., NPO is all or nothing, except if diet type = tube feeding).
Error message: Diet order is invalid due to conflicting NPO order.
Reason: Diet/texture combination is not published in the current account.
Error message: Diet order is invalid as diet/texture combination is not published.
Reason: One or more components (diet type, texture type, fluid type) is not published in the account.
Error message: {diet, texture or fluid} is not published.
Reason: Diet type is liquid and texture type is not liquid.
Error message: Texture should be “liquid” when the assigned diet is a liquid one.
Reason: Texture type is liquid but diet type is not liquid.
Error message: Texture should not be “liquid” when the assigned diet is not a liquid one.
Reason: Diet intervention is not valid for assigned diet/texture.
Error message: Diet intervention is not valid for assigned diet/texture
How Am I Alerted to an Invalid Diet Order?
When a profile has an invalid diet order, you are alerted as follows:
- On the People Listing screen, an invalid diet order appears with the following icon
:
- Hovering your cursor over icon explains why the diet order is invalid.
- When you open the profile screen the associate message appears explaining why the diet order is invalid.
- The profile screen displays that there is an invalid diet order.
How Do I Resolve an Invalid Diet Order?
You can change the diet order as needed to make the diet order valid; see Assigning Diet Order (Diet Type, Texture Type, Fluid Type) to Person.