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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
Face to Face
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