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Nutrition Diagnosis
Step 2 of the NCP: a specific nutrition problem that an RDN is responsible for treating, organized into three domains.
Nutrition diagnoses are grouped into three domains: Intake (NI), Clinical (NC), and Behavioral-Environmental (NB). They differ from medical diagnoses because they describe problems that nutrition intervention can resolve or improve. Each diagnosis has a reference sheet in the eNCPT defining the problem, common etiologies, and signs/symptoms. Examples include 'inadequate oral intake,' 'unintended weight loss,' and 'food and nutrition-related knowledge deficit.'
How one textbook covers it
Krause and Mahan's Food and the Nutrition Care Process, 16th ed. — Chapter 9
Nutrition diagnoses are grouped into three domains: Intake (NI), Clinical (NC), and Behavioral-Environmental (NB). They differ from medical diagnoses because they describe problems that nutrition intervention can resolve or improve. Each diagnosis has a reference sheet in the eNCPT defining the problem, common etiologies, and signs/symptoms. Examples include 'inadequate oral intake,' 'unintended weight loss,' and 'food and nutrition-related knowledge deficit.'
Related terms
NCPT, Nutrition Diagnosis Etiology Matrix, PES Statement