Enteral & Parenteral Nutrition Awareness
- In House
- Certification
- 1 Day
- Group/Individual
- £75.00
- (12 Candidates) £675.00
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