What is Planning?

• It’s a detailed plan of interventions/actions to support a person to achieve

their nutrition goals.

Planning nutrition intervention involves:

•Prioritizing nutrition interventions based on urgency, impact, and available
resources
•Collaborating with the client to identify goals of the intervention for each
diagnosis
•Writing a nutrition prescription based on a client’s customized recommended
dietary intake of energy and/or selected food or nutrients based on current
reference standards and dietary guidelines and a client’s health condition
and nutrition diagnosis
•Selecting specific nutrition intervention strategies that are focused on the
etiology of the problem and that are known to be effective based on best
current knowledge and evidence
•Defining the time and frequency of care, including intensity, duration, and
follow-up
Purposes of Planning
• To give time for the nurse to review nutritive
value of food.
• To ensure that indications and contraindications
of certain diets have all been considered before
giving food to clients.
• To fasten the recovery of the client.
• To provide variety of the food
• To improve the appetite so that maximum diet is
consumed and wastage is minimized
• To eliminate unwanted interactions of foods
with other medications taken by the client.
• To individualize the interventions to be taken,
and fit it according to client’s present health
status, age, sex, food tolerance, preference,
budget, culture and location.