Meals and drinks in the care app¶
Whoever serves the meal or brings the drinks has a phone in hand, not the desk. The care app has two screens for them: Meals, for the meal round, and Hydration, for the drinks. Everything recorded there lands in the same records as the desk: see The meal round.
The cards of the shift screen¶
On the shift screen, two cards sit beside the cares and the doses:
The meal card — before and during the meal, the number of places still to serve for the meal of the hour; once the meal’s hour has passed, the Amounts to note for the residents followed for nutrition. It says not confirmed by the kitchen while the menu is a draft.
Hydration — the number of residents without a drink today.
Each card appears only for someone allowed to record there. Neither is ever red: a meal to serve at noon is the work of the shift, not an emergency.
The Meals screen¶
Open it from the meal card. At the top:
the sector button, to show one sector or the whole house;
the meals of the day, the one of the hour already chosen;
the dishes of the menu, with its alternatives;
the counts: to serve, served, absent, and the amounts still to note;
Dining room, Room or All, to show where the meal is eaten;
Serve all, to mark everyone at the table served in one go. The absent, the residents away, the plates put off to later and the plates with a critical dietary alert are left out.
Then three lists, in the order of the round: To serve, Served, Absent.
What each line shows¶
the resident, with their photo and room;
the texture (highlighted when it is a modified one), the diet codes, the help needed at the table, the medical devices (stoma, gastric tube) and the food allergies;
the Nutrition cares of the period, done or to do, with the carer assigned (for example Meal assistance or Intake monitoring);
what the resident does not like;
in red only, a critical dietary alert: the plate must be changed before it is put down; a warning appears in plain text;
the plate, only when it is not the menu’s;
the state: served at what hour and how much, refused and why, later.
Recording a plate¶
Swipe right — Served.
Swipe left — Refused: choose why (Not hungry, Does not like it, Nausea / unwell, Asleep, Other); Other needs a word.
Press and hold — every other choice the plate allows: In room or Dining room, Refused, Later (stays to serve, with an optional reason), Absent, Change dish, Note the amount, Undo.
Change dish only offers the dishes of the menu, alternatives included, that raise no warning for this resident. If none suits, ask the kitchen.
After each act, a message offers Undo for a few seconds.
Noting the amount eaten¶
After the meal, a served line without an amount shows Note the amount. The button is large when the amount is owed (resident followed for nutrition, marked To note), smaller when it is optional.
Tap Note the amount.
Choose the amount: 0, ¼, ½, ¾ or 1 (the whole plate).
Optionally add A drink with it: the kind of drink and the glass (100, 150, 200 or 250 ml).
Add a word if needed, then tap Save.
The sheet says beforehand which care it closes (for example the Intake monitoring care of the period). If the resident refused, tap Refused? give the reason instead.
The resident’s meal sheet¶
On a resident’s sheet in the care app, the diets and the texture appear next to the allergies, and two buttons open:
Meals — the resident’s meal sheet:
a banner when something needs attention: intake or fluids below target these last days (Tell the nurse), a resident followed for nutrition (note every amount), or nothing recorded yet;
Today — each meal of the day with its state, hour and dishes, and Open the meal round;
Intake of the day — energy, protein and fluids against the resident’s targets, and the coverage of the last 3 days;
At the table — texture, diets, food allergies, help needed, dislikes and likes.
Drink — the resident’s drinks of the day (see below).
The Hydration screen¶
Open it from the Hydration card. The chips All, No drink yet and Below target narrow the list.
Each line shows what the resident drank today against their target, the hour of the last drink and, in amber, Below target these last days.
One tap is one glass: tap 100, 150, 200 or 250 ml. The glass is recorded with the hour of the tap.
The drink button next to the glasses sets the kind of drink when it is not water (coffee or tea, juice, milk, soup, oral supplement…).
Press and hold a glass for another amount or another drink, with an optional word, then Record.
One resident’s drinks¶
From the resident’s sheet, Drink opens their drinks of the day, newest first:
swipe left on a line to Delete it;
press and hold to Edit it: amount, kind of drink, the hour (Drunk at, with − and + by 5 minutes) and a word, then Save.
You can delete or edit your own lines of the day; someone allowed to delete any line of the fluid chart can change all of them. Right after a tap, Undo takes the last glass back. Every resident brings back the whole list.
Drinks and hydration rounds
A glass marks done the Hydration round care of its period. Deleting or moving that glass opens the round again, unless another glass of the period answers it.
From a care to the right screen¶
In the care app’s task list, a Hydration round care opens the resident’s drinks, and an Intake monitoring care opens the meal round, where the amount eaten is noted.