Nutritional Screening: A MUST for Healthcare Workers – E-learning


Through the BAPEN e-learning portal you can directly access 3 interactive e-Learning modules on nutritional screening using ‘MUST’, designed for health and care staff working in hospitals, primary care and care homes.

Developed in partnership between BAPEN and Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS these three modules explain the causes and consequences of malnutrition, the importance of nutritional screening and how to screen using ‘MUST’. Each module includes case studies and care plans appropriate for the work place and an online assessment together with the ability to print off certificates of achievement.

The modules takes approximately 45 minutes to complete and you can do at a time, place and pace suitable for you.

On completion of a module you will be able to:

•    Appreciate the detrimental consequences of malnutrition
•    Perform nutritional screening using the ‘Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool’ (‘MUST’)
•    Demonstrate changes in patients’ nutritional risk through regular screening
•    Identify and take appropriate actions for nutritionally at risk patients

Access is free using an NHS email address. You will need to set up an account to gain access.

 

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