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Revista Española de Nutrición Humana y Dietética

versión On-line ISSN 2174-5145versión impresa ISSN 2173-1292

Resumen

CARBAJAL, Ángeles; SIERRA, José Luis; LOPEZ-LORA, Lorena  y  RUPERTO, Mar. Nutrition Care Process: elements for its implementation and use by Nutrition and Dietetics Professionals. Rev Esp Nutr Hum Diet [online]. 2020, vol.24, n.2, pp.172-186.  Epub 11-Ene-2021. ISSN 2174-5145.  https://dx.doi.org/10.14306/renhyd.24.2.961.

Introduction:

The Nutrition Care Process (NCP) and NCP Terminology (NCPT) provides a performance protocol that allows encouraging critical thinking, promoting evidence-based professional practice, documenting it, measuring outcomes and evaluating the quality of nutritional care. Objective: To increase awareness of using NCP and NCPT, its basic elements, application in nutritional care in professionals of Nutrition and Dietetics and evaluating its international implementation.

Material and Methods:

A review of the published works about NCP and NCPT in English and Spanish. Search terms: Nutrition Care Process, Dietetic Care Process, Standardized Terminology, Proceso/Plan de Atención/Cuidado Nutricional/Dietético and Terminología Estandarizada (TE). It was not limited by date of publication and those articles with low scientific evidence or with changes from the original model were excluded.

Results:

The NCP provides a holistic approach and contributes to improving the quality of nutritional care, the exchange information and nutritional follow-up. The implementation of the NCP improves the productivity of those professionals, who are using it, and furthermore, promotes and strengthens the functions of the Nutrition professional in clinical-community healthcare settings.

Conclusions:

NCP and NCPT are internationally recognized tools to promote the professional practice in the clinical-community setting and nutritional research, emphasizing the requirement to include it in the academic curriculum and the professional practice of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Palabras clave : Nutritionists; Nutrition Therapy; Standard of Care; Reference Standards; Process Assessment, Health Care; Clinical Decision-Making; Terminology as Topic; Dietitians; Nutrition care process; Dietetic care process.

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