Canadian Malnutrition Awareness Week™ Webinars

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Nutritional Screening and assessment, and treatment and follow-up of  hospitalized children with malnutrition should be organized by a multidisciplinary team and appropriate nutritional pathways are needed.

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In this session, the Canadian Malnutrition Task Force (CMTF) will provide a brief update on the latest initiatives being undertaken with its partners and collaborators, aimed at being Stronger Together to address malnutrition. After 2 years of the publication of the Malnutrition Prevention, Detection and Treatment Standard CAN/HSO 5066:2021, the Health Standards Organization (HSO) will share the results of the pilot of the Malnutrition Prevention, Detection and Treatment Required Organizational Practice (ROP). The pilot has been used to assess feasibility of the inclusion of the ROP into Accreditation Canada’s Qmentum Accreditation Program. HSO will also share feedback received from hospitals that participated in the pilot for the ROP. This session will also include the real life experiences of a Clinical Nutrition Manager and her team as they have continued to implement best practices to address malnutrition across several institutions in Montreal.

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Nutrition screening is an important step in the prevention, detection & treatment of malnutrition. Older adults are particularly vulnerable, timeliness of screening has escalated due to staff/workplace challenges in a post pandemic era. Nutrition interventions, including those provided in a primary and community setting, have shown to result in a positive impact on intake, quality of life, health care costs and even mortality. Nutrition screening with validated tools and care pathways have been shown to be feasible in a family practice setting.

A “stronger together” approach is needed in a community setting where other medical professionals can work with dietitians to provide the best nutrition care. In this session, a well known nutrition researcher will briefly review the evidence and knowledge based pathways created around nutrition screening in older adults. This will be followed by an interactive interview style session in which MDs, RNs and a Clinical Program Lead from varying primary care settings across Canada will share their personal experiences with nutrition risk screening.

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Residents often face challenges in accessing high quality food and nutrition care in Long-Term Care (LTC). This has been exacerbated in post-pandemic recovery due to heightened staffing shortages and budget constraints. Resident-centred care involves individualized care provided with compassion, dignity, and respect for meaningful quality of life. When addressing malnutrition, resident-centered food and nutrition care  aims to meet resident goals, needs and preferences and requires buy in from multiple partners.

In this session, physicians, dietitians, nutrition managers, and food service workers from varying LTC centres across Canada will present the latest recommendations and guidance on resident centred care approaches for food in LTC. They will also share their own experiences with implementing resident-centred care for food & nutrition care and offer practical resources and tools for use in a LTC setting.

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Au cours de ce webinaire, le Groupe de travail canadien sur la malnutrition (GTCM) présentera rapidement les plus récents projets entrepris avec ses partenaires et collaborateurs dans un effort de mise en commun des forces de chacun pour mieux lutter contre la malnutrition. Deux ans après la publication de sa norme Prévention, détection et traitement de la malnutrition (CAN/HSO 5066:2021), l’Organisation de normes en santé (HSO) présentera les résultats du projet pilote de mise en œuvre de la pratique organisationnelle requise (POR) sur la prévention, la détection et le traitement de la malnutrition. Ce projet pilote a été réalisé dans le but d’évaluer la faisabilité de l’inclusion de cette POR dans le Programme d’agrément Qmentum d’Agrément Canada. L’organisation de normes en santé présentera les commentaires reçus de la part des hôpitaux qui ont participé à ce projet. De plus, au cours du webinaire, la coordonnatrice en nutrition clinique d’un centre hospitalier de Québec, partagera les expériences acquises en situation réelle par les membres de son équipe, qui ont continué à travailler à la mise en œuvre des pratiques exemplaires de lutte contre la malnutrition.

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Specialized nutrition care is an individualized nutrition strategy that often includes enteral nutrition, parenteral nutrition. It requires the involvement of a registered dietitian and/or a nutrition support team member and is a key component of the Integrated Nutrition Pathway for Acute Care (INPAC), a standard to meet the nutritional needs of patients. In this session, a globally renowned gastroenterologist-nutrition specialist will review the role of enteral nutrition, parenteral nutrition, with or without oral nutrition supplementation, in optimizing nutrition and preventing or treating malnutrition. Tools created to assist the bedside practitioner with proper assessment techniques to identify malnutrition will be shared. Learn from a nutrition support dietitian educator about the gaps in current practice compared to latest recommendations for enteral and parenteral nutrition in acute care. Practical strategies to overcome challenges faced by dietitians administering nutrition support will be offered.

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