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Nutrition in Care Settings – Food fortification
This Open Badge is awarded to people who demonstrate an understanding of undernutrition and the practical steps to tackle this.
This Open Badge is designed to equip people with practical skills to combat malnutrition. The focus lies on identifying signs and symptoms of undernutrition, understanding the fortification of food and drinks, and applying this knowledge in a fortified milkshake activity.
Given the high prevalence of malnutrition risk among people in care settings, these skills are crucial in ensuring positive outcomes. Your participation in this learning series will significantly contribute to the enhanced well-being of the individuals under your care.
Developed in collaboration with NHS Tayside’s Allied Health Professions Clinical Educators and NHS GGC Care Home Team, we are grateful to NHS Tayside’s Nutrition and Dietetic Service for providing access to these learning materials.
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You must not use any generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to plan, write or improve your evidence for this badge.
To achieve this badge you must:
- Watch the video Spotting signs and symptoms of malnutrition on YouTube (4 minutes)
- Watch the video Food first on YouTube (7 minutes)
- Watch the video Nourishing drinks on YouTube (4 minutes)
- If possible, prepare a basic fortified milkshake based on the instructions in this video guide.
- Tell us about what you learned from these activities, including the milkshake activity and tell us how you would use this in your practice in a person centred way. (150 words minimum)
- Discuss what you have learned with someone (e.g. line manager or colleague) and how you will apply this in practice giving an anonymised example of someone under your care and make a short note of this discussion. (50 words minimum).
- Please add a note of your role (e.g. care home carer; unpaid carer; friend/family) and which healthboard/partnership you work or reside in.
Your application will be returned to you with a request for further evidence if it does not meet all the above criteria or if it is not clear which of these questions you are answering within your evidence.
This badge does not require you to hold any other badges however you may find it useful to complete Getting started with Open Badges & Writing Evidence for Open Badges if you are new to Open Badges.
You will need to submit a written statement, of at least 200 words in response to the questions asked in the criteria. You can write your statement directly on the badge application form or paste a link to your own blog or portfolio.
We will also accept an audio or video submission if you prefer.
The evidence you submit will be viewable by anyone who you show your badge to. Do not include confidential or private information within your submission.
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Scottish Social Services Council
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I confirm that I have already achieved the SSSC learning challenge: Participant badge. I have read, understood and completed all the activities listed in the badge criteria and each question from the criteria is answered in the evidence I have provided. My evidence has been written or recorded by me and I have not copied it from anywhere else or used an AI tool to produce it. I understand that it will take 28 days for you to assess my application and that feedback cannot always be provided if my application is unsuccessful.
I confirm that I have not used generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) to plan or write any of the evidence I have provided. This is my own original work and I have not copied it from anywhere or anyone else. I understand that all AI assistance is banned under the rules for Open Badge applications.
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