host is a hospital?

Ardneth · Feb 28, 2011

I was a food service host in a hospital back in high school. Granted it was a while ago, but the hosts in my hospital worked in patient 'dining areas' (kind of like LTC facilities have). A couple of the floors (rehab and peds) had a patient dining room area where patients could eat together. A food service host was assigned to each during meal times to assist with residents and food requests and running (extra drinks, missing items, etc). We also prepared and delivered "room service" requests to rooms between meals and helped keep the floor refrigerators stocked with basic items that the nurses used frequently for patients like juices, crackers, etc.

meghan91 · Feb 28, 2011

ok thank you so much..so i wont have to actually be preparing the food?

Ardneth · Feb 28, 2011

Not sure about your hospital. The only time we did things like that was during down time, we would helping with plating individual items (like filling fruit cups, laddeling pudding cups, wrapping cookies, etc)

meghan91 · Feb 28, 2011

thank you...it sounds like your hospital and mine might be the same i have seen the host on the floors at my hospital and they would come around and help with selecting meal options with the patients and deleiver the trays

classicdame, MSN, EdD · Feb 28, 2011

the hosts in my facility help load the trays (special diets so watch the order!) and they deliver them to the floors or rooms, depending on the patient's need. I hope this facility offers tuition reimbursement. That would be great to help you learn the hospital protocols, some of the staff, and then transfer to other departments as your career progresses. Make friends with the Staff Development (Education) people. I am precepting several nursing students (or wanna be's) now, encouraging them to finish school.