What is NUTCAP?
- NUTCAP is an innovative project, created for nursing students to expand their learning and understanding around the topic of nutrition and participate in a quality improvement project within their local health and social care settings to help improve the nutritional care of adults.
- Student nurses work alongside registered nurses, health professionals and Doctors exploring the enablers and barriers to effective planning and management of nutritional care with a range of different health and social care settings, and help to identify and implement solutions to prevent them.
What does NUTCAP aim to do?
- To improve the nutritional care of adult people in health and social care
What are the objectives of this project?
- Better understanding of the food and nutrition experiences of people during the times they engage with health and social care providers
- Identify and understand the barriers to planned nutritional care within identified settings.
- Identify gaps in Nurses’ Nutrition knowledge and management of food and Nutrition to people in their care.
- Improve professional working between Nurses and Dietitians
- Identify cost-effective solutions that can be implemented and sustained to improve nutritional care within the constraints of individual health and social care settings.