Nutrition and Hydration

8 Lessons

1 hour 44 mins

Complexity : Easy

Essentials of Nutrition: Understand the importance of different food groups and how they fuel our bodies.

Hydration Benefits: Learn why staying hydrated is crucial for health and how to ensure you're getting enough fluids.

Balanced Diet: Discover the significance of a varied diet for overall health and how to create nutritious and enjoyable meals.

Staying Hydrated: Get tips on maintaining hydration levels, especially during busy times, to improve health.

Healthy Daily Choices: Learn practical strategies for prioritizing nutrition and hydration in your daily routine for better health.

Lessons

Brief Description of Nutrition and Hydration
Easy
2 mins

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.
Module 1: The Course Structure
Easy
2 mins

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.
Module 2: Defining the Terms
Easy
12 mins

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.
Module 3: The Eat well Plate
Easy
21 mins

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.
Module 4: Hydration
Easy
15 mins

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.
Module 5: Through-life nutrition
Easy
18 mins

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.
Module 6: Malnutrition and Over nutrition
Easy
19 mins

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.
Module 7: The Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool
Easy
15 mins

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?