How do you do calorie counts at your facility?

[oramar]

I have encountered several different ways of doing it at several different institutions. The ones that involve nursing staff doing the counting seemed to be set up to fail. I really like what they do at my current place of employment. They mark the tray with a special marker that clearly denotes the patient is for calorie count. Only thing the staff has to do is make sure nothing is removed from tray. When the tray gets back to dietary it is counted by their staff.

[NurseLatteDNP, MSN, DNP, RN]

In our hospital we have to write down exactly how much the patient ate/drunk on the I&O sheet. And dietary counts the calories for us.

[HappyNurse2005, RN]

Usually we have 3 day calorie counts. The dietician comes and puts up the 3 sheets (1 for each day) right on the front of hte pt's door. The sheets are bright pink and hard to miss. For each, there is a section "breakfast" "snack" "lunch" "snack" and "dinner", and some blank lines. the nursing writes in under each what food item they ate, then checks if htey ate 0%, 25%, 50%, 75% or 100% of that item.

after 3 days, dietician picks them up and counts.

[veegeern, BSN, RN]

Usually we have 3 day calorie counts. The dietician comes and puts up the 3 sheets (1 for each day) right on the front of hte pt's door. The sheets are bright pink and hard to miss. For each, there is a section "breakfast" "snack" "lunch" "snack" and "dinner", and some blank lines. the nursing writes in under each what food item they ate, then checks if htey ate 0%, 25%, 50%, 75% or 100% of that item.

after 3 days, dietician picks them up and counts.

Yeah that.