Supporting a Person to Eat and Drink

Work Sheet

Name: ______Date: ______

Name of Trainer: ______

Name of Company Developing Material: Clinical Update (NZ) Ltd

Contents

Segment 1 - Introduction

Segment 2 - Instructions

Segment 3 - Keeping a Person Safe

Segment 4 - Aspiration Pneumonia

Segment 5 - Assistive Equipment

Segment 6 - Social Needs and Preferences

Segment 7 - Recording and Reporting

Segment 1 - Introduction

List individual instructions you will find?

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What type of instructions might you find?

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What do you need to know about food protectors?

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List 6 examples of different food requirements you may find?

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Give 3 examples of special eating or drinking equipment you may find?

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List 4 environmental preferences a person may have when eating a meal?

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Give 3 examples of ways in which you can assist a person to be independent when eating?

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Segment 2 - Instructions

List 6 reasons why instructions are important?

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List 6 specific instructions you may need to know around a person diet?

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Why is reading instructions important?

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Segment 3- Keeping a Person Safe

List 6 things to do to help keep a person safe?

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How do you assist a person?

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How do you position a person for eating?

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What must you do if feeding a person in bed?

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List the tips for helping a person to eat and to aid digestion?

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What is your role in assisting a person

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There are some things you don’t do when assisting a person. List them

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Segment 4- Aspiration Pneumonia

What is aspiration pneumonia?

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Why do these things cause a pneumonia?

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It is estimated to be the cause of about ______of pneumonia cases admitted to hospital.

How is this pneumonia treated? ______

What group of people are most at risk? ______

What can affect the gag reflex?

How can you identify a person who is at risk?

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List the signs and symptoms?

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What do you do if a person may have aspirated some food or vomit?

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Segment 5 - Assistive Equipment

List the 3 types of eating utensils that may help a person to feed themselves

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List types of plates and bowls are available to assist a person?

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List drinking straws that are available

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Who do straws work best for?

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What to straws reduce the risk of?

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List 4 types of drinking vessels that can assist a person

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Assistive equipment does come at a ______but are good as a ______for a person. However if a person is given some assistive equipment as a gift it is important that it is only ______by the ______

List 3 types of assistive techniques that may be used to help a person?

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How will you know what to do?

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Segment 6 - Social Needs and Preferences

Why is food important?

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List 6 social needs to consider for a person?

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List 3 allergies to consider?

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List 3 types of vegetarian needs to consider?

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List 4 examples of cultural considerations?

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Segment 7 - Recording and Reporting

What does insufficient food do to the body?

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List 10 things you need to observe with a person at meal times?

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What doyou have to observe with a person when they are drinking?

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List 5 things that could be fixed that would make eating and drinking easier and more pleasurable for the person?

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What do food intake charts do

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List 4 reason why a food intake chart may be started?

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What does a fluid balance chart record?

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List what you record when recording urine output?

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List what you observe when recording vomit?

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List 5 things you need to report if a person has diarrhoea?

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List what you need to record when recording a person’s fluid intake?

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What do you report in writing?

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Who do you report verbally to, how and when?

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