Apply for this badge Nutrition in Care Settings – Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST)
View all badgesTo achieve this badge you must:
- Watch the video Know how to use MUST on YouTube (16 minutes)
- Explore the resources on NHS Tayside’s Screening for malnutrition website (1 hour)
- Download a copy of the MUST explanatory booklet from BAPEN for future reference
- Tell us about what you learned from these activities and why this is important to (a) you and (b) the people you care for (50 words minimum)
- Explain how you will use what you have learned in your practice in a person centred way. (150 words minimum)
- Discuss what you have learned with someone (e.g. line manager or colleague) and how you will apply this in practice giving an anonymised example of someone under your care and make a short note of this discussion. (50 words minimum).
- Please add a note of your role (e.g. care home carer; unpaid carer; friend/family) and which healthboard/partnership you work or reside in.
Your application will be returned to you with a request for further evidence if it does not meet all the above criteria or if it is not clear which of these questions you are answering within your evidence.
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I confirm that I have already achieved the SSSC learning challenge: Participant badge. I have read, understood and completed all the activities listed in the badge criteria and each question from the criteria is answered in the evidence I have provided. My evidence has been written or recorded by me and I have not copied it from anywhere else or used an AI tool to produce it. I understand that it will take 28 days for you to assess my application and that feedback cannot always be provided if my application is unsuccessful.
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