Professional Online Training
Nutrition and Hydration
Understand nutrition and hydration terminology, identify malnutrition risk using recognised screening tools, and support service users to meet their dietary and fluid needs safely
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Course Details
- Duration: 1 hr 5 mins
- Delivery: Online and self-paced
Who This Course Is For
This training suits anyone involved in supporting the dietary and fluid needs of others, including:
- Care workers responsible for meal and fluid support for service users
- Support staff working with vulnerable adults or elderly residents
- Healthcare assistants who need to recognise and act on malnutrition risk
Course Content
The course is divided into the following modules:
- The Course Structure — Sets out how the course is organised and what each module will cover.
- Defining the Terms — Clarifies the terminology used when discussing nutrition and hydration in care settings.
- The Eatwell Plate — Introduces the Eatwell Plate as a model for understanding a healthy, balanced diet.
- Hydration — Explains why vulnerable people are at risk of dehydration and how this can be addressed.
- Through-life Nutrition — Covers how nutritional requirements change across different stages of life.
- Malnutrition and Overnutrition — Distinguishes between malnutrition and overnutrition and their effects on health.
- The 'Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool' — Demonstrates how to use this tool to identify individuals at risk of malnutrition.
Course Information
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Buy for Yourself or Your Team
Choose one seat for yourself or add places for colleagues. Each learner receives their own course access.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does this course cover how to identify people at risk of malnutrition
Yes, the course includes a dedicated module on the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool, which provides a practical method for identifying individuals at risk.
Will this course explain what a healthy balanced diet looks like
Yes, the course uses the Eatwell Plate model to explain the basic elements of nutrition and what a healthy, balanced diet involves.
