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To all Parenteral Enteral Nutrition (PEN) Group Members*
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Would you like a chance to showcase your success? Would you like to win £200 prize money to help fund attendance at BAPEN/PENG or even purchase some equipment for clinical practice?
The PEN Group of the BDA are looking for five dietitians who are members of the *PEN Group and who can demonstrate exemplary use of the PEN Group Pocket Guide to Clinical Nutrition. Applications for PEN Group Award 2011 are now open; deadline EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 30th 2011. To celebrate the popularity of the Pocket Guide to Clinical Nutrition and to coincide with the forthcoming updated sections (which will be launched at the PEN Group meeting in November) this year’s PEN Group Award funded by Fresenius Kabi and Abbott Nutrition, focuses on submissions demonstrating use of the PENG Handbook “A Pocket Guide to Clinical Nutrition” in practice. To be considered for an Award we invite you to tell us about your best practice; show us how you use the PEN Group Pocket Guide to make a difference to your patients in your clinical and/or non-clinical or educational practice - however you have used it. Simply write a short summary or case
study, in the form of an abstract with title, authors, introduction/background, results, discussion, conclusion and references on one page of A4. Submit along with your contact details to Kate Hall email:
peng@bda.uk.com by SEPTEMBER 30th 2011. All applications will be judged according to set criteria and the lucky winners will be notified in advance of the PEN Group meeting. We will hold an Award ceremony at the PEN Group meeting where the winners will receive their prizes.
PEN Group recognise how difficult it can be to obtain funding to attend study days or purchase equipment so remember, this year the Award is split into 5 prizes of £200, allowing more dietitians to win and helping to support your attendance at a meeting of your choice or fund essential equipment in practice such as a hand-grip dynanometer!
*If not a member of the PEN Group but would like to enter please go to the PEN Group website:
www.peng.org.uk
A 'MUST have' App!
'MUST' goes high tech and BAPEN uses internet, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to launch the 'MUST' App for the iPhone.
A welcome addition to the 'MUST' Toolkit for those with iPhones, the App provides an easy, quick and accurate way to screen for malnutrition. The App has been 5 star rated at the iTunes store with reviewers saying that the App is 'Fantastic, easy to use and quick - a 'MUST' have App'. Currently the App has been purchased and downloaded in Brazil, New Zealand and Italy as well as the UK.
Paper,Web or App – the choice is yours
With the growth of the use of mobile technology and Apps in particular, BAPEN decided to convert its popular and validated screening tool for identifying malnutrition into an electronic version that can be used by all across health and care settings.
“Making malnutrition easier and quicker to identify is a top priority for BAPEN,” says Professor Marinos Elia, Chair of BAPEN’s Malnutrition Action Group and who led the development of the BAPEN ‘MUST’. “Our strategy is to develop a wide range of ‘MUST’ tools to enable every single health and care professional and organisation to implement screening for all. The ‘MUST’ App is the latest addition to our toolbox and will undoubtedly appeal to those amongst us who are technically minded – or dare I say addicted – to phone technology!" The App provides a quick and accurate way of generating a score for malnutrition risk and can be used in community, care and also clinical settings. It also provides an easy way to cascade the message that malnutrition is common and that nutritional screening is achievable – a message that is as important for patients, carers and families as it is for healthcare professionals. “The ‘MUST’ App will be invaluable to
clinical practitioners with iPhones. It’s straightforward, easy and quick to use. I use it all the time. A great addition to the BAPEN
‘MUST’ Toolkit,” says Andrea Cartwright, BAPEN Executive Officer and Senior Nutrition Nurse Specialist at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Dr Simon Gabe, BAPEN Treasurer but also iPhone advocate and Consultant Gastroenterologist, St Mark's Hospital, Harrow says: "The ‘MUST’ helps doctors to appreciate the importance of nutrition and that malnutrition is common and often unrecognised. Having the ‘MUST’ calculator with management advice incorporated to create the ‘MUST’ App is the way ahead. This is an essential piece of software for a great bit of hardware!"
The App will not appeal to all, or be able to be used in all settings. The paper versions of the ‘MUST’ remain available as downloads from the charity’s website or in printed format from the BAPEN Office. The ‘MUST’ calculator taking the mystique out of BMI chart and conversion calculations to produce a risk score is also freely available online. Anne Holdoway, Specialist Dietitian, confirms that: “The ‘MUST’ App is a welcome addition to the Toolkit and whilst I, as a die titian, will continue to use the paper version, I know that many colleagues particularly in the community will welcome this new tool.” "Whilst much malnutrition in the community,
care settings and hospital continues to be unidentified and untreated," adds Professor Elia, "BAPEN is committed to producing the tools and guidance required to make avoidable malnutrition and its health consequences a thing of the past. I urge all iPhone users to get the ‘MUST’ App, try it out and share it with colleagues.”
The ‘MUST’ App is available as a download for the iPhone at just 59p. Full details about ‘MUST’ and its resources can be found on the BAPEN website:
www.bapen.org.uk
Dysphagia Diet Food Texture Descriptors
(April 2011) Now Available to Download Developed by the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) Dysphagia Expert Reference Group, in association with Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, the new descriptors replace previous versions produced by the British Dietetic Association (BDA) and Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT). Representatives from nursing, dietetics, speech and language therapy, industry, and hospital catering were included in The (NPSA) Dysphagia Expert Reference Group. Endorsed by the BDA, RCSLT, Hospital Caterers Association (HCA) and the National Nurses Nutrition Group (NNNG), the new Dysphagia Diet Food Texture Descriptors are available to download from:
http://www.bda.uk.com/publications/statements/NationalDescriptorsTextureModificationAdults.pdf
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