Dietary Aide/ Diets

Who helps ensure that patients in health care facilities enjoy a healthy diet?

• Support Services

• Dietary Aide

• Patient Transporter

• Central Supply Manager

Dietary Aides have to be familiar with all kinds of diets so they can serve them to the correct patients.

• True

• False

Dietary Aides prepare meals but do not supervise meal preparation.

• True

• False

Dietary Aides work with registered dieticians to create meal plans, monitor patient eating habits and provide information to patients and their families about dietary issues.

• True

• False

What is the kinds of food that a person, animal, or community habitually eats?

• Nutrition

• Diet

• Organic

• Well balanced meal

What is a diet that includes no more than 1,500 to 2,400 mg of sodium per day?

• Mechanical Diet

• Soft Diet

• Low Sodium Diet

• Diabetic Diet

What is a diet that is used by people with diabetes or high blood sugar to minimize symptoms and dangerous consequences of the disease?

• Mechanical Diet

• Soft Diet

• Low Sodium Diet

• Diabetic Diet

What diet is where all foods are allowed that can be made easier to chew and swallow by using machines. Foods may be blended, pureed, ground, or finely chopped.

• Mechanical Diet

• Soft Diet

• Low Sodium Diet

• Diabetic Diet

What is a diet that involves only foods that are physically soft, with the goal of reducing or eliminating the need to chew the food?

• Mechanical Diet

• Soft Diet

• Low Sodium Diet

• Diabetic Diet

It could be very harmful for a patient to receive the wrong diet.

• True

• False