One year of a pandemic: experience of the Nutrition and Dietetics Department of a referral hospital for COVID-19 care

• Autor(a) principal: Ortiz, Thais Hammes
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Giesta, Juliana Mariante, Zoche, Ester, Dorneles, Cristina Toscane Leal, Vargas, Marcia da Silva, Anele, Carolina Ribeiro, de Souza, Lucia Pereira, Santos, Viviane Ribeiro, da Silva, Simone Machado, Gonzales, Andrea Cristina Silva, Eberhardt, Denise, Zeidler, Gisela Von, Bosa, Vera Lucia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Clinical and Biomedical Research
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/hcpa/article/view/114536
• topic: Covid-19; Serviço de Nutrição e Dietética; Plano de contingência; Infecção por coronavirus

Introduction: The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic brought changes in work organization in all spheres, requiring the restructuring of routines and teams to meet this new demand. The aim of study was to report the experience of the Nutrition and Dietetics Department (NDD) of Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA) and the changes that occurred during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: This is an experience report of the performance of HCPA NDD from April 2020 to March 2021. Results: There was an increase in absenteeism in the NDD, requiring processadjustments and relocations. There was also an increase in enteral nutrition delivery due to the severity of the clinical condition of hospitalized patients, a reduction in the capacity of employees’ cafeteria to meet distancing protocols, and a need to use disposable utensils, deliver motivational messages to patients, make adjustmentsto the human milk bank process, and implement changes in nutritional assessment protocols for inpatients and remote outpatient care.  Conclusion: This experience provided the NDD with a great legacy of learning and overcoming by requiring the NDD to adapt while maintaining quality service and strengthening teamwork relationships.