Enteral & Parenteral Nutrition Awareness

Course Details

This course is for all health care professionals who work in NHS, Health and Social Care settings to include Private Nursing and Residential homes supporting patients in their recovery journeys who require support with monitoring and management of malnutrition problems using various evidence based interventions. The participants will be able to gain knowledge and skills on understanding the causes, symptoms, risks associated with malnutrition, preventative measures and the benefits of using various feeding methods and monitoring processes. The participants will deliver patient centred care empowering the patient by incorporating the principles of consent, ethics, effective communication and capacity in the whole recovery journey in line with current practice guidelines.

Course Aims

For CCT Skilled Trainers to deliver high quality accredited face to face training with practical skills sessions which is tailored to organisational need and policies. For CCT skilled Trainers to deliver training which fulfils the current Core Skills Training Framework(CSTF), current CQC and NICE guidelines.

Learner Objectives

To ensure participants are able to gain knowledge and awareness on causesand symptoms of Malnutrition
To ensure participants are able to gain knowledge and awareness on the screening and Nutritional assessment process
To ensure participants are able to gain knowledge and awareness on the well-known common Diseases Associated with the risk of Malnutrition
To ensure participants are able to gain knowledge and awareness on the risk factors associated with Malnutrition
Understanding patients who suffer from Dysphagia, presenting symptoms ,nutrition monitoring and management
Patient centred care/effective communication/ethics and consent and capacity and decision making process
To assess on-going nutritional status, determine whether nutritional goals are being achieved and take into account both body fat and muscle
To ensure patient is not becoming over/under hydrated by using current guidelines on Nutritional Requirements and Feeding Methods
To ensure participants are able to gain knowledge and awareness on the principles of infection control and Incident reporting
To ensure participants are able to gain knowledge, awareness and skills on the refeeding programme and the benefits of vitamins prescriptions
To ensure participants are able to gain knowledge and skills on ,the current ENFIT feeding tubes and seek more guidance from their organisations
Educate all staff, voluntary workers, patients and carers on the importance of good nutrition and hydration in maintaining better health and wellbeing
To ensure that patient is receiving nutrients to meet requirements and that current method of feeding is still the most appropriate seeking their consent using both Enteral and Parenteral feeding methods
To ensure participants are able to gain knowledge, awareness and skills on how to manage a patient on home enteral nutrition and preventing relapse
To ensure participants are able to gain knowledge and skills on administering medication to patients receiving enteral feeding
To ensure participants are able to gain knowledge and awareness on understanding the advantages and disadvantages of different medication formulations
To ensure participants are able to gain knowledge and skills on drug interactions, the risks and complications associated with enteral feeding
To ensure participants are able to gain knowledge and skills on Nasojejunal Tubes
Take into account the duties placed on them under the Equality Act 2010 and with regard to reducing health inequalities, duties under the Health and Social Care Act 2012

Course Modules

Definitions and Statistics
Causes and Symptoms of Malnutrition
The screening and Nutritional Assessment process
Common Diseases Associated with the risk of Malnutrition
The risk factors associated with Malnutrition
Dysphagia, presenting symptoms ,nutrition monitoring and management
Ethics and consent and capacity and decision making process
Assessment of on-going nutritional status, determine whether nutritional goals are being achieved and take into account both body fat and muscle
Assessment of over/under hydrated patients using current guidelines on Nutritional Requirements and Feeding Methods
The Principles of Infection Control and Incident reporting
The skills on the re-feeding programme and the benefits of Vitamins prescriptions
The current ENFIT feeding tubes and seek more guidance from their organisations
The importance of good nutrition and hydration in maintaining better health and wellbeing
How to monitor and manage a patient on home enteral nutrition and relapse prevention
Administering medication to patients receiving enteral feeding
The advantages and disadvantages of different medication formulations
The skills on drug interactions, the risks and complications associated with enteral feeding
Nasojejunal Tubes
The Equality Act 2010 and with regard to reducing health inequalities, duties under the Health and Social Care Act 2012
Current Nice Guidelines

Course Benefits

This face to face course which provides learners with an in-depth insight, knowledge and skills on how to support and care for adults diagnosed with malnutrition from understanding the causes, symptoms, the risks associated, the importance of empowering patients,empowerment,ethics and consent pharmacological and non-pharmacological evidence based interventions to support nutrition monitoring, stabilisation and management using various feeding methods.

CPD – 8 Points