- If Diet Orders are Assigned from your EHR
- Manually Assigning a Diet Type
- Manually Assigning Multiple Diet Types (for Informational Purposes Only and US Accounts Only)
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Manually Assigning a Texture Type
- Manually Assigning Different Texture Types
- Manually Assigning a Fluid Type
- What Happens When you Change Diet Order of Person with Personal Menu Customizations?
- What Happens When you Change Diet Order of Person with an Assigned Diet Intervention?
- FAQs
If Diet Orders are Assigned from your EHR
This article explains how to manually assign diet orders (diet type, texture type, and fluid type) to residents/patients in your MealSuite account.
Manually assigning diet orders will be necessary if your account is not utilizing a MealSuite Connect interface to automatically pull in diet orders assignments from your EHR.
Note: If your account utilizes a Connect interface to pull in diet order assignments from your EHR, then any diet orders that you manually assign on people profiles will subsequently be overwritten by the Connect interface when it syncs data from the EHR.
Manually Assigning a Diet Type
From the Diets field in the Personal Information section of the person’s profile, you can assign a diet type to a person.
Manually Assigning Multiple Diet Types (for Informational Purposes Only and US Accounts Only)
If you are a US account, there is the ability to assign multiple diet types to a profile resident for informational purposes. For example, Diabetic/Renal/Vegetarian. A resident with multiple diet types will be listed on the various people reports that print diet orders.
Warning: The assignment of multiple diet types to a resident profile is for informational purposes only, and is only available to US accounts. If a profile is assigned multiple diet types, then only the primary diet type is used by the system to control what foods are served on the personal menu. Additional diet types (i.e., secondary and tertiary diet types) DO NOT CONTROL what foods are served on a resident's personal menu.
To assign multiple diet types (for informational purposes only):
- From below the Diets field in the Personal Information section, click the Assign Multiple Diets link to display the Multiple Diets Assignment window.
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From the right column, select the diet types to assign.
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From the left column, you can sort the diet type priority by dragging and dropping a diet type to the desired spot in the list.
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You remove a diet type by clicking its
icon.
- Click Save at the top right of the panel to apply your changes.
Manually Assigning a Texture Type
From the Texture field in the Personal Information section of the person’s profile, you assign a texture type to a person.
Why is a Diet Type or Texture Type not Available for Selection?
If a diet type or texture type is grey and not available for selection, it indicates that the specific diet type/texture type combination is unpublished in the system (see Unpublishing or Publishing a Diet Type/Texture Type Combination for more information). For example, assume the following diet type/texture type combination is unpublished:
- Diet type: Consistent CHO
- Texture type: Easy to Chew
On a person's profile, the combination will not be available for selection. Either the diet type or texture type can be selected, but its combination counterpart will be greyed out and not available for selection.
Manually Assigning Different Texture Types
To accommodate the increased acuity of a resident/patient during the day, MealSuite allows a person to be assigned different texture types for different meal periods/snack times. For example, assume regular texture foods for a resident can be had at breakfast and lunch, but later in the day as the resident becomes more tired (and therefore at risk for an incident) the texture is downgraded to be mince meat for dinner and soft and bite-sized for snack HS.
To assign different texture types for different meal periods/snack times:
- From below the Texture field in the Personal Information section, click the Assign Texture by Meal link. The Assigning Texture by Meal window appears.
- Select the desired textures for each meal period/snack time.
- Click Apply to apply your changes. When a person is assigned different texture types, the Texture field displays Multiple Selected, and the different texture types for the meal periods/snack times are listed below the field.
- Click Save at the top right of the panel to apply your changes.
Manually Assigning a Fluid Type
In the MealSuite system, a recipe can be can be extended with fluid recipe substitutes across the fluid types (honey thick, nectar thick, etc.). When a person is assigned a fluid type, then the system will serve the fluid recipe substitute of the fluid type for the selected recipe. For more information, see How a Fluid Recipe is Served.
From the Fluid field in the Personal Information section of the person’s profile, you assign a fluid type to a person.
Do Not Use the "Fluid Restriction" Option from the Fluid Drop-Down
When assigning a fluid diet type to a resident/patient, the Fluid Restriction option may be available from the Fluid drop-down (screenshot below).
DO NOT USE the Fluid Restriction option! The Fluid Restriction option currently serves no function. It was carried over from the legacy system, and as such will be removed from accounts it is currently available in.
To implement a fluid restriction for a resident/patient, see the following article: Implementing a Fluid Restriction for a Resident/Patient.
What Happens When you Change Diet Order of Person with Personal Menu Customizations?
If a person is set up with personal menu customizations, and you subsequently change their diet order (either the diet type or texture type), and the new diet order has not been previously assigned to that person before, or has been assigned before but does not have any customizations, then you are given the opportunity to copy personal menu customizations from the former diet order to the new diet order via the Copy Customizations window:
- If all customizations from the former diet order are applicable to the new diet order, click the Copy Selected Customizations to Current Diet Order button.
- If all customizations from the former diet order are not applicable to the new diet order, select the Do Not Copy, Items Are Not Applicable button.
- If only some customizations from the former diet order are applicable to the new diet order, then clear the check boxes those non-applicable customizations, and then click the Copy Selected Customizations to Current Diet Order to copy the customizations.
What Happens When you Change Diet Order of Person with an Assigned Diet Intervention?
If a person’s diet order (i.e., diet type and texture type) is changed, and that new diet order is not valid for any of their assigned diet interventions (i.e., the diet type/texture type of the intervention does not match the diet type/texture of the person), a message appears stating that the intervention will be removed from the profile along with its personal menu customizations.
FAQs
How do I change the name of a diet type? How do I change the name of a texture type? How do I change the name of a fluid type?
The name of a diet type, texture type, or fluid type can be changed via the Diet Orders screen (Tools & Setup > Diet Orders). See the following instructions: