Pediatrics/Paediatrics - Growth Faltering (Failure to Thrive)
Nutrition Care Process (Toolkits)
Last Updated: 2023-09-13
Target Group: All children(0-12 yr.), Infant(0-2 yr.), Youth(13-17 yr.)
Goals
Goals for monitoring the growth and any related growth faltering of infants and children should be determined in conjunction with the caregiver (including parent) and should be specific to the individual. Goals that are set should be time-sensitive, easily measured and achievable by the nutrition intervention. Action- and outcome-related goals, along with both short-term and long-term goals may be set. Examples include:
- “provide a tool for nutrition and health evaluation of individual