FW: Meal delivery to patients under transmission-based precautions

[Nicky Ridden]

Hi Rachel

I have answer your question in red below

Kind regards

Nicky
IFC

Gold Coast Private Hospital
14 Hill Street, Southport QLD 4215
T (07) 55 30 0389
E nicky.ridden@healthscope.com.au
W http://www.goldcoastprivate.com.au

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Hi all,

Our organisation has recently completed a pilot Quality project on mealtime assistance. This “Protected Meal Time” project identified a number of barriers to adequate nutrition including that those patients under transmission-based precautions are often not receiving timely access to meals and morning tea/ supper etc.

Based on this pilot project, we are considering ways to improve patient access to meals etc. To assist us in our discussions would you please consider the following questions for your organisation and respond via return email at your earliest convenience.

This project was undertaken in an Acute Tertiary facility, thus I am most interested in the practices of other Acute or Tertiary facilities.

* Do catering staff deliver meals into the rooms of patients under the following transmission-based precautions

o Contact ONLY (e.g. Clostridium difficile, MROs etc.) Yes/ No

* If Yes

* Do they wear PPE (Yes/ No)

* If no

* Who delivers the meals/ drinks etc. The tray is left on the precautions trolley for the Allocated Patients nurse to deliver to the patient

o Droplet ONLY (e.g. Bordetella pertussis, Meningococcal etc.)

* If Yes

* Do they wear PPE (Yes/ No)

* If no

* Who delivers the meals/ drinks etc. as above

o Droplet and Contact (e.g. Viral gastroenteritis, Influenza etc.)

* If Yes

* Do they wear PPE (Yes/ No)

* If no

* Who delivers the meals/ drinks etc. as above

o Airborne (e.g. TB, Chickenpox, measles etc.)

* If Yes

* Do they wear PPE (Yes/ No)

* If no

* Who delivers the meals/ drinks etc. as above

o Airborne and Contact (e.g. Varicella zoster [chickenpox] etc.)

* If Yes

* Do they wear PPE (Yes/ No)

* If no

* Who delivers the meals/ drinks etc. as above

Our reasoning behind this is because Food Services Staff are not trained in PPE and precautions.

* Any other comments about strategies you have implemented to support effective nutrition for isolated patients?

Many thanks in advance for your replies

Kind regards
Rachel

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Rachel Thomson
Nurse Unit Manager

Infection Prevention & Control Unit
Royal Hobart Hospital
Tasmanian Health Organisation-South

*: 03 6166 7882/ 6166 8658

Level 4, H Block
48 Liverpool Street
Hobart, 7000

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