Dietetics and Nutrition
Our dietetics and nutrition service provides services Rockingham General Hospital, Mandurah Community Health Centre and Murray District Hospital to optimise the health outcomes and nutritional status of:
- inpatients across all wards and units
- outpatients via clinics and group education.
Hospitalised patients can face any number of nutritional issues. Our dietitians work with patients who require one or more of the following:
- specialised oral nutrition supplements
- special diet modifications
- nutrition education
- enteral nutrition (tube feeding)
- total parenteral nutrition (intravenous feeding).
Our services include:
- assessing the nutritional status of our patients
- calculating and determining their dietary requirements
- providing adequate nutrition through specialised nutritional products
- developing and implementing nutrition care plans
- preparing patients for discharge and educating them about healthy eating once they are home
- developing specialist resources
- working with other health professionals and catering staff to ensure our meals are of a high standard and cater for the different dietary needs of our patients.
Our department provides home enteral nutrition (HEN) to eligible patients.
If you are a current HEN Rockingham Peel Group patient and need to place your next order, please phone our HEN dietitian on 9599 4825.
The following general resources are not suitable for all patients but may be useful while you wait for your dietetic appointment.
- Healthy eating throughout all of life (external site)
- High energy high protein recipes (Queensland Health) (external PDF 913KB)
- High energy high protein drinks (Queensland Health) (external PDF 637KB)
- How to understand food labels (external site)
Links
- Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA) (external site)
- Cancer Council WA (external site)
- Coeliac Australia (external site)
- Diabetes Australia (external site)
- Dietitians Association of Australia (external site)
- Eat for Health (external site)
- Gastroenterological Society of Australia (external site)
- Healthy WA (external site)
- Heart Foundation (external site)
- Live Lighter (external site)
- Kidney Health Australia (external site)
- MS (external site)
- Parkinson’s Australia (external site)
Operating hours
Weekdays
8.30am – 4.30pm, Monday to Friday at Rockingham General Hospital
Hours vary at Mandurah Community Health Centre and Murray District Hospital.
Weekends
There is no weekend service across all sites.
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