Nutrition Care Process is a way to improve consistency and quality of individualized care for residents and the predictability of resident outcome. The goal of NCP is to standardize a process for providing nutrition care. There are four steps involved in the NCP to form a framework for the RD to create an individualized nutrition plan.

Step 1: Nutrition Assessment.

Step 2: Nutrition Diagnosis.

Step 3: Nutrition Intervention.

Step 4: Nutrition Monitoring and Evaluation.