Nutrition & Hydration Training Donna Steeden Support Services Manager.

Nutrition & Hydration Training

Donna Steeden

Support Services Manager

Catering Staff Training• Skills Gap

• Mealtime Experience

• “Beyond the Kitchen Walls”

Dedicated Training• Full Day Training – Dietician, Speech &

Language Therapist

• Practical demonstrations – Soaked & Moulded Foods, Snack Tasting, Supplement Tasting

• Workbook Sessions

Barriers• Catering Training Impact Limited

• Recognition of Importance (Nutritional Care)

• Amount of Care Staff Training Already Required

• Cost

National Nutrition Day• Care Staff Training

• Study Day Format

• Morning & Afternoon Sessions

• Aim – realise importance of nutritional care & impact their can have

Nutrition in Older People• Balanced Diet

• MUST

• Snacks

• Fortified Foods

Hydration• Importance

• Signs of dehydration

• Consequences of dehydration

• Practical steps to take:– Encouragement– Presentation– Opportunitites

Pureed Diets• Dysphagia

• Thickened Fluids

• Soaked Foods

• Moulded Foods

• Mealtime Experience

Feedback• Understanding of importance

• Practical Things to Do

• Understanding of Role Each Staff Member Can Play

• Team Approach to Nutrition

Future

• Nutrition Champions

• Rolling Training Program