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
Downtown Dayton Campus
Location to be announced
Faculty: Oneill
Term: Summer 2023
Format: Condensed content. Shorter than normal term. Credit earned though an agreement between faculty and student. Can be longer or shorter than normal term.
Restrictions: Independent Study Student
Open Seats: 3
Section: 301
Open Seats: 3
Section: 301