This workshop guide is a unit of study for teaching dietetic assistants to work with quality control in a nursing home or hospital. The objective of the unit is to enable the students to develop and expand a dietetic services administrative and clinical quality assurance program in his or her own institution. Following the unit objective, the unit contains specific objectives (e.g., "to list appropriate personnel to serve on a dietetic services quality assurance committee"), suggested activities (i.e., "to show how to graph performance using transparency 6"), information sheets on aspects of quality assurance procedures, student assignment sheets, answers to the assignment sheets, a comprehensive unit test with answers, and unit references. Topics covered in the unit include quality assurance standards, dietetic services audits, sample outcome and process criteria, analyzing audit results, and auditing and performance schedules. (KC)