Nutritional Requirements Course
This focused course equips you with essential skills to meet nutritional demands of adults in long-term care settings. Delve into dysphagia management using IDDSI standards, customised nutrition for chronic conditions like diabetes and hypertension, precise meal planning, vigilant intake monitoring, and ethical practices to ensure safe, personalised, and effective dietary care that enhances resident wellbeing and complies with care standards.

4 to 360 hours of flexible workload
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What Will I Learn?
Gain practical expertise in evaluating energy, protein, and fluid requirements for adults, creating safe meal plans for long-term care residents, and handling dysphagia through texture-altered diets and thickened fluids. Master strategies for managing prevalent chronic illnesses, tracking nutritional intake and body weight, adhering to safety protocols, and addressing ethical challenges, patient refusals, and family input with assured documentation and professionalism.
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Develop Skills
- Plan dysphagia diets by implementing IDDSI framework for safe texture modifications.
- Develop tailored menus for long-term care addressing specific health conditions and portions.
- Adapt nutrition plans for chronic issues including diabetes, hypertension, and obesity.
- Monitor intake effectively by recording weights, fluids, and alerts with accurate logs.
- Navigate ethical dilemmas in nutrition care handling refusals, consents, and cultural preferences.
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