Term Archives

  1. Mental Health Awareness CC

    Mental Health is something which everyone should know about. An online mental health awareness training course that is designed to support employers, line managers and HR professionals in having confident conversations with colleagues who have and are showing early signs and symptoms of mental health problems.
  2. Nutrition and Hydration CC

    According to Age UK, 1 in 10 older people are undernourished. Of these, over 90% live in the community rather than in residential elderly care. Also, the NHS states that 35% of those admitted to care homes are also affected by malnutrition.
  3. Module 1: The Course Structure CC

    This module will start by defining the various terms used when learning about nutrition and hydration in care environments. It is important that everyone understands the terms and uses the correct ones if you are to work together as a team.
  4. Module 2: Defining the Terms CC

    In this module, defining the terms if you are part of a team responsible for people’s nutrition and hydration; it is significant that everyone understands the terms that are being used when providing routine services or when you are reading about the subject or attending training sessions.
  5. Module 3: The Eat well Plate CC

    In module 3, we are going to start with a phrase “The eat-well plate”. What is a healthy diet? No single food apart from breast milk contains all the essential nutrients. The body needs to be healthy and function in an effective way.
  6. Module 4: Hydration CC

    In this module, we will cover a subject of hydration. Water is essential for life and it is very significant to get the right amount of fluid to be healthy. It also has the added advantage of having no kilojoules.
  7. Module 5: Through-life nutrition CC

    This module covers through life nutrition. The nutrition we need at various stages of our lives starting with food for young children right through to nutrition for the elderly. We will start with food for young children.
  8. Module 6: Malnutrition and Over nutrition CC

    This module covers the subjects of malnutrition and over nutrition. Malnutrition is defined as a state of nutrition in which a lack of protein energy and nutrients causes measurable adverse effects on tissue and or body form, composition, function or clinical outcome.
  9. Module 7: The Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool CC

    This module covers the malnutrition universal screening tool also known as MUST. MUST is a five step screening tool to identify adults who are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition. It also contains an overview of how to develop a care plan and why we use a screening tool?
  10. Module 6: Self-Care CC

    Self-care means taking care of yourself, supporting people to take responsibility for their own health and welfare so that you can be healthy both physically and mentally, you can be well, you can do your job, you can help and care for others, and you can do all the things you need to and want to accomplish in a day.