Nutrition and Hydration Training
📅 Duration: 3 hours (half-day)
👩⚕️ Audience: Registered Nurses, Nursing Associates, HCAs, carers, support workers and other healthcare staff involved in supporting nutrition, hydration, mealtime care and patient wellbeing across healthcare and care settings
🏥 Format: Face-to-face delivery at your organisation
👥 Group Size: Available live online or face-to-face at your organisation
Malnutrition and Dehydration Awareness Training
Course Details:
Good nutrition and hydration are essential for maintaining health, supporting recovery and reducing the risk of complications such as dehydration, malnutrition, pressure damage, infection and falls. Healthcare professionals play a key role in recognising early signs of poor intake, supporting safe eating and drinking, and escalating concerns appropriately.
This practical course explores the importance of nutrition, hydration and person-centred care across healthcare settings. Learners will develop awareness of MUST assessments, dehydration risks, dysphagia, modified diets, feeding support and strategies to encourage safe and effective nutritional intake. The course also highlights the impact poor nutrition and hydration can have on physical health, recovery, cognition and overall wellbeing.
More than 3 million people in the UK are estimated to be either malnourished or at risk of malnutrition, with older adults and people in healthcare settings particularly vulnerable. Poor nutrition and dehydration can increase the risk of falls, infections, pressure ulcers, delayed healing and hospital admission.
Learning Outcomes – Fluids and Nutrition Training
By the end of this CPD-accredited course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the importance of good nutrition and hydration in maintaining health and wellbeing
- Define the terms hydration, dehydration and malnutrition
- Recognise signs and symptoms of dehydration and poor nutritional intake
- Identify individuals who may be at increased risk of malnutrition or dehydration
- Demonstrate understanding of the MUST (Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool)
- Describe methods to support and encourage safe food and fluid intake
- Recognise the importance of individualised nutritional care planning
- Demonstrate awareness of dysphagia, modified diets and feeding support strategies
- Identify common barriers to maintaining good nutrition and hydration
- Recognise when concerns should be escalated in line with local policy and professional responsibility
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Why Choose Hickby?
👩⚕️ Nurse-led expertise
Delivered by experienced Clinical Nurse Educators with real-world practice.
🎓 CPD accredited
Assurance that training meets national professional standards.
📖 Evidence-based
Aligned with NICE, RCN, and NMC guidance for safe, effective care.
“Really informative training with lots of practical tips we could actually use in our setting. Much better understanding of supporting residents.”
Healthcare Assistant
Nursing Home Setting
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