Transition of Nutrition Therapies from Acute Care to Home Care

Learning Objectives
Describe the management of the nutrition patient from acute care through discharge home on nutrition support and psychosocial impact
Relate the goals of providing nutrition support in acute care to the goals in home care and identify strategies for overcoming barriers to timely discharge of nutrition patients
Define the role of the nutrition support team, to include physician, dietitian, nurse, pharmacist, social worker and case manager, in preventing complications in long-term home enteral and parenteral nutrition patients