good nutrition practice

Overcome Malnutrition

 in 4 steps

Good nutrition practice - our gnp program

Improve your patient care with a simple and effective program:

Early detection of malnutrition or nutritional risk and appropriate management is the crucial step to fight against malnutrition. Nutritional screening and assessment of patients at admission to hospital or nursing home, adequate follow up with nutritional support and regular monitoring are the four steps to tackle malnutrition and to stop the vicious cycle.

gnp — make good nutrition practice a vital part of your patient management and ensure patients receive appropriate nutrition, at the right time.

The concept is based on clinical guidelines, recommendations of international scientific societies and institutions, latest expert knowledge and practical experiences.
Today, five dedicated gnp versions are available which are adapted to the specific patient conditions and healthcare professional needs:

  • gnp Hospital
  • gnp Nursing Home
  • gnp Oncology
  • gnp Dysphagia
  • gnp Paediatrics

The philosophy of gnp is to make nutritional management as easy as possible with the overall aim to improve the nutritional status of the patient! 

On the subpages of gnp the tools will be available for download.

gnp Screening Tools

Screening tools

The 1st step for a successful nutritional management.
Find here the validated NRS 2002 screening tool.

Assessment

Assessment

The 2nd step for an efficient nutritional management: questions to evaluate the causes of malnutrition and the risk factors for nutrition and fluid deficiency.

Careplan

Nutrition Care Plan

The 3rd step: To define the nutritional goals and the individual nutritional requirements you'll find here helpful gnp tools.

Moitoring

Monitoring

The 4th step: Download material for the documentation and monitoring of the effectiveness of the nutrition management.