Nutrition Awareness course

This Awareness course is designed to provide candidates with an introduction to Nutrition awareness and how best to enable service users to choose and consume food and drink by mouth.  Delegates will understand how to assess the specific nutritional requirements and needs of each user.

Delegates will  be able to  identify the key minerals and nutrients which patients may require but also learn  that  the actual support required by the service user will be dependent on their specific  individual needs. Candidates will gain an understanding about malnutrition and the implications of malnutrition on the individual's physical, psychosocial and mental health.

Delegates will also learn about  the good and bad effects of food on the body and general heath of the user and how to make any appropriate  changes to the diet and nutrition  according to any  illness or condition the user may have.