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Disability at Work Conference 2024

Event start date: 23/07/2024

National Disability Services (NDS) calls on employment service providers and other professional employment specialists, to help shape and drive the program for NDS's Disability at Work Conference.

Right on Board – Practice Governance for Disability Service Providers: Governing and Managing for Human Rights, Quality and Safeguarding - Online Series

Event start date: 1/08/2024

Right on Board answers the need as highlighted by the Disability Royal Commission for greater awareness of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

National Quality and Safeguarding Community of Practice

Event start date: 13/08/2024

NDS invites members to join the National Quality and Safeguarding CoP, a peer-led forum covering all areas of providing quality safe services for people with a disability.

Nutrition and Unplanned Weight Loss: Preventing Malnutrition

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Location: National (online)

Date: 31/12/2099

Available now - secure your booking for 2024.

This workshop is in partnership with and facilitated by Preventing Harm Initiative (PHI).

Learn the recommended way to recognise, respond to, and manage nutrition risks to prevent malnutrition.

This course will step you through what you need to know to assess, investigate and respond to nutrition risks and improve the quality of care

Instructor Led Training (ILT) via zoom

Duration: One hour
Course outcomes:

Know the sign and symptoms of unplanned weight loss and malnutrition
Be aware of the causes of unplanned weight loss and malnutrition
Learn how to assess unplanned weight loss and develop effective risk management strategies whilst waiting for specialist input
Gain case study practice on investigating weight loss, developing just in time risk management strategies and monitoring improvement

This workshop is in partnership with Preventing Harm Initiative (PHI).

Who should attend?

NDS recommends that Nurses, and Support and Care staff within disability service organisations are most suited to attend.

Cost

Member: $1225 plus GST
Non-member: $1620 plus GST

Contact information

For any enquiries, please contact L and D, Learn and Develop Team, submit enquiry/feedback, show phone number