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Poor nutrition and dehydration affect over 3 million people in the UK alone and the associated healthcare costs are as high as £20 billion every year

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Learning outcomes

  • Understand what good nutrition involves and how to spot if your patients aren't getting what they need to stay healthy
  • Learn about food safety, what the risks are and how to avoid them, and who is most at risk from contamination
  • Consider how you can support and promote access to the fluids, foods, and nutrients the people in your care both need and want

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Course contents

This training course is broken down into 3 sections

  1. 1
    Nutrition and Hydration
  2. 2
    Food Safety
  3. 3
    Promoting Adequate Nutrition and Hydration

Section 1

What we eat and drink is absolutely vital to both our physical health and our mental wellbeing. In our first section, we will look at the importance of nutrition and hydration for those in Care who may not be able to do this for themselves and may rely on you to provide them with all the fluids and nutrients they need.

Section 2

Whether you regularly prepare meals for your patients or simply supply the odd snack or two, you need to make sure that what you provide them with is safe and free from contamination. There are four main ways in which food can become contaminated. These are: physical, chemical, allergenic and bacterial.

Section 3

Whenever anybody enters care or receives support from a care worker, even if it’s only short term, an assessment should be made about their nutrition and hydration in order to find out exactly what needs they have. The assessment should be recorded in their Care Plan and should cover whether they have any allergies, whether they need any support eating and drinking.

About this course

What we put into our body is vital to our health and wellbeing, this is a particular concern for those living in Care. It is vital that those living in Care get the proper nutrients and diet that they need as (in some cases) they are more susceptible to illness.

As well as knowing what fluids, foods and nutrition patients will need and how to handle food safety, employees in Care will also know what signs and symptoms of poor nutrition & hydration to look out for.

Employees will learn the importance of good nutrition & hydration and why it is important for maintaining good health and wellbeing in Care residents.

Standard 8 of the Care Certificate – Fluids & Nutrition – ensures that staff:

  • understand principles or hydration, food safety & nutrition
  • help individuals to have access to fluids which sits in line with their care plan
  • help individuals to have access to food and nutrition in line with their care plan

For more information about Food Safety & Hygiene (Level 1 & 2) in the Workplace or Food Allergens, take a look at our Food Safety & Hygiene bundle.

You can access our free worksheet that has been designed to accompany our online Fluids and Nutrition in Care Training course. In each section, there is a box for you to
tick when you have watched the relevant slide in our course. You can also take notes that will help you during your practical assessment at work.

This course works in partnership with our 14 other awareness courses that make up the Care Certificate.

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