# Ordering Diets and Outpatient Meals (overview)

From the Orders tab, users can place diet orders for inpatients and outpatients. For inpatients, users can place regular diet orders, tubefeeding orders, early/late tray orders, isolations/precautions orders, and additional orders. For outpatients, users can place orders for recurring meals, special meals, tubefeeding, early/late tray, isolations/precautions, and additional orders.

Some set up is required to use Outpatient meals. If it is not working properly, contact your IRM or ADPAC staff. An overview of set up issues is covered in the OR*3.0*215 Setup Notes.

The Nutrition and Food Service documentation is available on the VistA Documentation Library (VDL) at http://domain.ext/vdl / under Nutrition and Food S ervice.

Note: If a user begins to enter an inpatient diet and the patient already has a diet or a delayed diet order, CPRS will display a dialog to tell the user that the existing meal could be replaced. The dialog also shows the components of the existing diets.

CPRS displays this Confirm dialog if the user begins to enter an inpatient diet that will cancel and replace the current diet order or a delayed diet order depending on it the orders have beginning and ending dates specified..

Note: If a user begins writing delayed diet orders that conflict because start and stop dates are not well defined, CPRS will display a dialog to inform the user that one of the diet orders may be replaced and gives users some guidance.

The Possible delayed order conflict dialog displays to ask the user if the user has checked a couple of items.

Related Topics

Regular Diet Orders

Tubefeeding Orders

Early/Late Tray Order

Isolation/Precaution

Additional Diet Order

How to Write Orders (overview)

Ordering Outpatient Recurring Meals

Ordering Outpatient Special Meals

Ordering Outpatient Meals Tubefeeding

Ordering Outpatient Meal Early/Late Trays

Ordering Outpatient Meal Isolations/Precautions

Ordering Outpatient Meal Additional Orders