Transcript An Introduction to the new learning outcomes

An Introduction to the new learning
outcomes
Heather Wanstall
The Dietetic Care Process
• Nutrition and Dietetic Care Process - BDA (October
2006)
• A step wise approach to dietetic care
• Defines the actions, critical thinking and skills that
are components of the dietetic intervention
• Can apply to an intervention with:
– An individual
– A group
– A population
The Process
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Assessing the need
Describing the need
Planning to meet the need
Carrying out the planned intervention
Monitoring and evaluation
• Plus professional attributes
The Dietetic Care Process
The Process
• Identification and assessment of nutritional need
– ABCDE approach
• Identification of a nutritional diagnosis
– Problem
– Aetiology
– Signs & Symptoms
• Formulate and plan dietetic intervention
– Aims and objectives of intervention
• Implement dietetic intervention
• Monitoring and evaluation of dietetic intervention
The Dietetic Care Process
Use in Dietetic education
• Provides a ‘uniform’ structure for dietetic
interventions in a range of settings
• Identifies the knowledge and skills required to
undertake nutritional care
• Develops clinical reasoning skills
• Breaks down the dietetic process into ‘bite sized’
chunks
• Facilitates a step wise approach to skill development
• Allows students to identify areas of the process
requiring further development and focus on these
areas
•Designed learning outcomes to cover the stages
of the dietetic care process
plus professionalism aspects
•Reduced number of learning outcomes for ease
of assessment (and memory!).
•Use the same learning outcomes for each of the
placements, with the level at which they are to be
achieved increasing (see handout)