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Food Cost Control QA Report Now Available on the Staff Website!
It's here! You can now use the staff site to print your Food Cost QA, enter the data, and help your facility benchmark and track their improvements. Go to www.nutricopia.me, log in, click on Dietitian Reports, Facility Report Cards, select your facility, and click on Report Cards, then create Food Cost Quality Assurance Report. Complete the report and save/submit just like your Report Cards.
SURVEY ALERT: If your community is in their survey window, continue to complete your Report Card this month so you are aware of any survey issues. Everyone else: complete the Food Cost QA report this month!
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In honor of Halloween coming up this month, I feel the need to make appropriate jokes:
What did the mother ghost tell the baby ghost when he ate too fast?
"Stop goblin your food".
Got a food Funny? email it to Judy
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Please send your RD News comments, suggestions & questions to Judy Morgan, MBA, RD
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Issue: 113
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October 12, 2011
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Greetings!
This issue brings you earthquake preparedness information you can share with your healthcare communities. |
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Get Ready for the Great Shake! | |
The Great California Shakeout is a state-wide preparedness drill happening on October 20th to help Californians prepare for an earthquake. Over 8 million participants are registered for the event and your healthcare community may be one of them. Share the resources from this newsletter with your DSS, Director of Staff Development or Director of Nursing. Resources for planning hospital drills are available here.
The basic idea is to Drop, Cover and Hold On. Across the state, at 10:20 am, on 10-20-11, participants will be practicing this concept for at least 60 seconds:
- Drop to the ground (before the earthquake drops you!)
- Take Cover by getting under a sturdy desk or table (or against a wall with your arms covering your head/neck)
- Hold On to your shelter until the shaking stops
Then, talk with people you are with about what might happen in a real earthquake, what you learned by practicing, and how you can reduce the risk of injury (at home, work, or school) by securing your space. Read on for more information on Drop/Cover/Hold On.
There is a falsehood circulating in emails about earthquake safety that needs your help to dispel. DO NOT believe the so-called "triangle of life" which recommends potentially life threatening actions, and the source of which has been discredited by leading experts. Direct people to go to these websites www.shakeout.org, www.dropcoverholdon.org, or
www.earthquakecountry.info for accurate earthquake safety information.
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Use this upcoming earthquake drill as an opportunity to In-Service the dietary staff on emergency preparedness. Check the emergency supplies and storage area. Review the Nutricopia Emergency Disaster Management Policies and Procedures (section 8). How would they fare in the event of an earthquake? Are they ready?
Take a digital picture of your facility's emergency/disaster supplies and storage room; email to me for a chance to win a Starbuck's giftcard to bring coffee to the deserving staff for the best, most organized emergency supply area!
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| Dear Dietitian | |
If you have been in an earthquake or participated in a drill, we'd like to hear about it. Let us know if you think your health care community clients are not in compliance with emergency/disaster preparedness or have inadequate food and water supplies. We are available to help you get them survey ready and earthquake ready.
Judy Morgan, MBA, RD
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