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.

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