DIT 2101 Eating Matters for Dining Assistants

Practical skill development in feeding techniques for the elderly. Ensures understanding of nutritional needs of residents, communication and interactions between residents/staff, behavior challenges and safety procedures. Students receive a Dining Assistant Certificate from Ohio Department of Health upon completion.

Prerequisites: None

Course Outcomes

• Utilize and demonstrate feeding strategies that optimize independence, safety, quality of life and overall nutritional well-being.
• Demonstrate effective oral and nonverbal communication skills with residents who may be visually, hearing, cognitively or physically impaired while respecting residents rights and maintaining human dignity.
• Identify and minimize special safety concerns of the resident that include falls, burns and choking while maintaining a low risk of food borne illness and contamination.
• Utilize the food pyramid guidelines for meeting nutritional needs and goals of the resident with an emphasis on calorie, protein, and fluid needs in a form best suited for the resident.
• Demonstrate skills that promote a positive mealtime atmosphere increasing independence and maximizing nutritional intake.

Credit Hours: 1

• Classroom: 1 hour

• Division: Health Sciences
• Department: Nutrition and Dietetics

• Repeatable Credit: No
• Offered Online: No

Available Sections

Fall Semester 2023

Downtown Dayton Campus

Bldg 13, Rm 425

Faculty: Oneill

Term: Fall 2023

Format: Course meets in person on scheduled days and times.

Restrictions: Required to Be 18 Or Older

Open Seats: 2

Meets: T from 11:00AM to 11:50AM

Section: 101

Open Seats: 2

Meets: T from
11:00AM to 11:50AM

Section: 101