Reconnaître et Combattre la Malnutrition dans Votre Pratique ("Recognizing and Tackling Malnutrition in Your Practice")
Date and Time: Monday, October 4, 2021, 12:00 - 13:00 ET
This webinar is presented in French / Ce webinaire est donné en français.
Speaker:
Manon Laporte, RD, MSc, CNSC - Réseau de santé Vitalité Health Network, NB
Description:
This webinar will review the latest evidence on the impact of hospital-based malnutrition and effective methods to detect, prevent and treat this debilitating condition in hospital and post discharge. It will include cutting-edge research that has been conducted by the Canadian Malnutrition Task Force over the last decade. Evidence-based protocols, pathways and tools aimed at tackling malnutrition that can be used by medical teams will be highlighted.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of the webinar, participants will learn about the:
- Key evidence on the impact of hospital malnutrition
- Evidence based approaches that can be adopted in the hospital and community to minimize malnutrition risk
- Tools and resources aimed at detecting, treating and preventing malnutrition that can easily be integrated into your practice
Moderator: Guylaine Ferland, PhD - Université de Montreal
Speaker Bio:
Over the past 25 years, Manon Laporte, a clinical dietitian at the Réseau de santé Vitalité Health Network in NB has been involved in different research projects and peer-reviewed publications related to malnutrition screening and assessment and has been an invited speaker on these topics. Manon is one of the founding members of the Canadian Malnutrition Task Force (CMTF). She was a co-investigator for the Nutrition Care in Canadian Hospital and More-2-Eat phase 1 studies and led the study on the development and validation of the Canadian Nutrition Screening Tool. She has participated in the development of the CMTF Subjective Global Assessment education package and provides training. She is also involved with the CMTF group working with the Health Standards Organization to develop a Malnutrition Safety Intervention Standard. Manon addresses the issue of malnutrition in adult patients on a daily basis.
This webinar is presented in French / Ce webinaire est donné en français.