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Fluids and Nutrition Training

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This module is designed to provide learners with the foundational knowledge and practical skills necessary to support the nutritional and hydration needs of individuals effectively. By understanding these key elements, learners will be better equipped to promote health and well-being in their care practices.

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Learning Outcomes

What you'll learn

  • Appreciate the importance of adequate hydration and nutrition to health
  • Describe how to perform a comprehensive assessment of someone’s nutrition and hydration status, including how to measure and record someone’s weight,
  • Recognise the signs of poor hydration and nutrition
  • Describe how to support someone in eating and drinking
  • Recall food safety legislation and adhere to food hygiene standards
  • List the four main ways in which food can become contaminated
  • Describe how to monitor and record fluid input and output
  • Discuss the indications, use and management of intravenous fluids
  • Discuss the indications, use and management of subcutaneous fluids
  • Know how to refer to specialist members of the multi-disciplinary team for additional or specialist advice
  • Appreciate the importance of individual patient differences including cultural considerations and psychosocial aspects
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Modules

  • The Importance of Fluids and Nutrition
  • Assessing Nutrition
  • Assessing Hydration Status
  • Supporting People with Nutrition and Hydration
  • Food Safety Legislation
  • Contamination
  • Food Safety Precautions
  • Monitoring and Managing Fluid Balance
  • Intravenous Fluids
  • Subcutaneous Fluids
  • Multidisciplinary Team Support and Referral
  • Person-centered Care
  • Summary
  • References
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Frequently Asked Questions

Fluids and Nutrition Training helps healthcare professionals understand hydration, nutrition, food safety, fluid balance, nutritional assessment, and safe support for eating and drinking.

Good hydration and nutrition support health, recovery, energy, and wellbeing. This training helps healthcare workers recognise dehydration, malnutrition, and other nutrition-related risks.

Nutrition and hydration assessment includes checking food and fluid intake, measuring weight, identifying signs of dehydration or poor nutrition, and accurately recording relevant information.

The four main types of food contamination are biological, chemical, physical, and allergenic contamination. Food hygiene training helps healthcare workers follow safe food handling practices.

Fluids and Nutrition Training is suitable for healthcare professionals and care workers who support patients with nutrition, hydration, fluid balance, food safety, and eating and drinking needs.