NutritionOrder resource (FHIR R4)

NutritionOrder is the FHIR R4 resource for a request to supply a diet, formula feeding (enteral) or oral nutritional supplement to a patient/resident.

Example

{
  "resourceType": "NutritionOrder",
  "id": "nutritionorder-89753e554c910249ab9a737221ca0a63",
  "status": "active",
  "intent": "order",
  "patient": {
    "reference": "Patient/patient-L46A6EIB9J"
  },
  "dateTime": "2026-07-01T12:00:00Z",
  "orderer": {
    "display": "Dr. Attending Physician"
  },
  "oralDiet": {
    "type": [
      {
        "text": "Diabetic (consistent carbohydrate) diet"
      }
    ],
    "instruction": "Advance as tolerated; dietitian to review within 48 hours."
  }
}

Generated by the Pidgeon engine: pidgeon generate NutritionOrder --seed 20260722.

Validation context

• strict pidgeon validate grades a NutritionOrder instance against the base R4 structure definition: missing required elements raise REQUIRED_FIELD_MISSING and cardinality violations raise CARDINALITY_MIN or CARDINALITY_MAX.(REQUIRED_FIELD_MISSING)
• strict Profile validation grades the same instance against an installed IG profile: profile cardinality findings carry FHIR-PROFILE-CARDINALITY and terminology binding findings carry FHIR-PROFILE-BINDING.(FHIR-PROFILE-CARDINALITY)