222.1.4- You should seek additional guidance about an individual’s choice of food and drink when you are not sure about what they can and can’t have. You can do this by asking the senior member of staff that is on that shift. However, you could also look in the individual’s care plan. 222.3.1- There is a variety of factors that help promote an individual’s dignity, comfort and enjoyment while eating and drinking. Some of these are simple such as ensuring the environment is safe and hygienic for them to eat.
Encourage the individual to select suitable options for food and drink. When encouraging individual’s to make suitable options choosing their food and drink make them aware of the better choices in a way that they will understand. The suitable choice may be for their dietary needs or health and safety reasons such as allergy issues, or just to encourage a better variety and to ensure their meals are balanced. 3. Describe ways to resolve any difficulties or dilemma’s about the choice of food and drink.
Learning Outcome 1 : Be able to support individuals to make choices about food and drink Assessment Criteria 1.1. Establish with an individual the food and drink they wish to consume Service users should always have the freedom to make choices about food and drink, thus the carer has to support them to make these choices, also taking into consideration dietary issues (possible allergies, diabetes, food intolerance) and prohibited foods due to medication (e.g. cranberry when on Warfarin). This information, as well as the medication is included in the care plan. Then, by direct communication with the service user, using his/her chosen form of communication, the carer establishes what he/she wishes to have.
|1. |How would you find out individuals’ food and drink preferences? | | | It is important to give people a choice of food that they eat and if possible vary the times for eating. The | | |choice of food should be offered in the type of food, the quantity and the way its cooked. Knowing your service users| | |and their likes and dislikes helps.
you examine the plan of care to confirm the individual’s nutritional requirements 2. you work with individuals, key people and others to identify the level of support and type of nutrition the individuals require 3. you identify any preferences and support individuals to choose food and drink, ensuring that you take into account religious, cultural, other dietary wishes and preferences and the plan of care 4. you identify and acquire any specialist equipment and protective coverings that are required to enable the individuals to eat and drink 5. you prepare the environment so that it makes eating and drinking enjoyable, safe and allows maximum interaction between individuals and other people 6. you put on protective garments, wash your hands and prepare yourself to provide food and drink for individuals HSC214b Support individuals to get ready to eat and drink Performance Criteria You need to show that, 1. you identify with individuals, key people and others the support individuals need to prepare them to eat and drink 2. you provide active support to enable individuals to prepare to eat and drink in comfort and with dignity 3. prior to and following eating and drinking, you support individuals to meet their hygiene needs, according to their personal beliefs and preferences 4. you respond appropriately to questions and issues raised about the food and drink individuals are about to consume, their diet and any dietary requirements 5. you take appropriate action when questions and issues are outside your competence HSC214c Help individuals consume food and drink Performance Criteria You need to show that, 1. you work with individuals and others to identify the level and type of support they require to enable them to consume food and drink 2. you provide active support for individuals when they are consuming their food and
CU2636 Support Individuals to Eat and Drink 1 Be able to support individuals to make choices about food and drink 1.3 Describe ways to resolve any difficulties or dilemmas about the choice of food and drink Some people might refuse to eat some food that has been given to them. They will have been given this food because it is what it says they need in their care plan such as a liquidised diet or a soft diet. If someone is on one of these diets then they might not be able to choose what they want to eat and then this will cause problems between the individual and the care assistant. However, there are some ways that you can resolve these difficulties and dilemmas. One of these ways is reporting them to your manager or senior member of staff who is on shift.
Supporting individuals to express needs and preferances This means to not institutionalise patients, for an example in a residential home: this means having flexable eating times, and waking up times. Allowing patiens to chose for themselves what they would like to join in with etc. Empowering individuals The definition of empowering is to authorise another person, or group, to have the freedom to act, think, respond,
As well as maintaining a good relationship with the individual. 2. Encourage the individual to select suitable options for food and drink Suitable food and drink should be encouraged according to the individual’s dietary needs. For example, an individual with type 2 diabetes needs to consume enough starchy and carbohydrate rich food to keep his blood glucose levels high enough to avoid suffering hypoglycemia (When the bloody glucose level drops below 4 mmol/L). In this case, food such as Potatoes, rice and sugary foods/drinks such as jelly and lucozade will be encouraged.
There are a lot of different ways of how they could be challenged regarding discriminatory issues and practice within health and social care. One of these ways could be a care worker promoting equality, value diversity and also the respect of the rights of service users is to always put the service user first. This involves taking into consideration a service users individual needs and making sure the need will always be met, an example of this would be, an individual requiring a specific eating plan. This would mean putting that service user at centre of provision which would make happier and healthier patient in most areas. They could achieve this by: * Having an understanding what it’s like to use for those
| |Make preparations to support individuals to eat and drink | |You must be able to: | | | |examine the care or support plan to confirm the individual’s nutritional requirements and preferences | | |work with the individual, key people and others to identify the level of support the individual requires and prefers | | |when eating and drinking | | |support the individual to communicate preferences for food and drink options, taking into account religious, cultural| | |and dietary requirements and the individual’s plan of care | | |acquire any specialist equipment and protective coverings that are required to enable the individual to eat and