Audience
Hospital volunteers who sometimes support patients at
mealtimes.
Content
Lecture
Lecture
- Inroduced SLT, my role, where I work and what volunteers might be expected to do.
- What is dysphagia + risks + signs of
- Safe feeding strategies
- SLT recommendations – showed example bedside signs e.g. nil by mouth. Fluids (thickened/ normal), Diet (normal, soft, soft-mash, puree, tasters
- Malnutrition and dysphagia
- Volunteer responsibilities when working with dysphagic patients e.g. asking nurses for info.
- Top ten tips for feeding.
Activities
- Thickening drinks
- Feeding each other, one person pretending to have hemiplegia/ sensory deficit e.g. hemiplegia/ closing their eyes (eater) and one person practiced feeding in a attentive/ neglectful way e.g. not talking through what they were doing.
- Reflecting on the activities. How did it feel to be the eater/ feeder?
- Activities and props e.g. bedside SLT dysphagia recommendation sign and a menu from the ward – worked well to break up the presentation and engage the volunteers.
- Examples/ client case studies interested the volunteers.
- Reading out text was not so engaging for the volunteers.
Improvements for next time
- Images on a powerpoint e.g. feeding tubes, drowsy looking patient, supplements, chest for aspiration pneumonia….
- Case studies to work through – split the large group up into four – what would you do if 1 – Patient struggling with meal, 2 Patient has requested normal fluids repeatedly 3. Aggressive patient 4. Patient keeps falling asleep.
- Ask more about experiences – eating/ drinking diff. / choking … and then relate these to the training. E.g. imagine if you had a coughing fit everytime you drank.
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