Fresenius Kabi
Experience you can trust
Fresenius Kabi is Europe’s leading healthcare company in the field of clinical nutrition.
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Fresenius Kabi offers a unique and comprehensive range of products and services for the acute and community environments. The company’s philosophy ‘Caring for Life’, aims to improve the lives of, and to help care for, critically and chronically ill patients.
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This is not simply through the products Fresenius Kabi provides and distributes, but through the services it provides. Fresenius Kabi is the UK’s market leader in the area of dysphagia; working closely with care homes and hospitals by helping them to improve the quality of nutrition and hydration.
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Fresenius Kabi offers a wide range of dysphagia products to the market to meet all patients’ needs.
40 years’ experience within Clinical Nutrition means Fresenius Kabi is a trusted partner.
Providing a value-added service
Seamless training and implementation
Working closely with healthcare providers, Fresenius Kabi provides a seamless transition, with the cost of change management covered by ourselves.
The implementation plan is coordinated by a dedicated Dysphagia Specialist, Key Account Manager and Primary Care Specialist:
Initial time-bound activities are agreed with the trust
Training and support is offered to HCPs and patients
We provide staff ‘drop in’ sessions and facilitate study days
‘Train the Trainer’ training is cascaded through the organisation
Facilitated audit trails and statistical evidence are provided for compliance
We also provide
Annual training update for The Trust and local area, including nursing homes and community hospitals
Training certificates and attendee training records
Implementation planning and review meetings
Template letters to communicate change and initiate prescription change
Letters for GPs
Posters and ward reference guides
Dysphagia-related training modules
With over 40 years’ experience within Clinical Nutrition, Fresenius Kabi offers a unique and comprehensive range of products and services for the acute and community environments.
Fresenius Kabi is the UK’s market leader in the area of dysphagia; working closely with care homes and hospitals by helping them to improve the quality of nutrition and hydration.
Fresenius Kabi can provide your care homes with dysphagia-related training to your care staff.
Your care staff will have the opportunity to develop an understanding of dysphagia and how this knowledge can be transferred to your working environment.
The benefits of our dysphagia-related training modules:
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Provide care staff with the relevant training = better outcomes for your staff; develop Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
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Enhance the understanding and knowledge of hydration, malnutrition and dysphagia
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Educate your care staff with the skills to manage residents suffering from dysphagia, dehydration and malnutrition more effectively
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Improve the quality of life for your residents
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Earlier identification of residents who are malnourished, dehydrated and suffering dysphagia, therefore reducing hospital admissions for your residents
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Develop a one home, one partner relationship
Making safe and pleasurable meal times a reality.
Education TrainingModules
Fresenius Kabi can provide your care homeswith dysphagia–related training.
Dysphagia – Theory to develop an understanding
Dysphagia – Practical learning session
Dysphagia – Disease states
Dysphagia – The importance of hydration and nutrition
Our training programmes can be tailored to your home’s needs and be booked in advance for a rolling 12–month educational package.
Colodny (2001) identified the need for education about dysphagia.1
Three factors for non-adherence of nurses and care assistants to dysphagia management recommendations were:
Seamless implementation
Working closely with healthcare providers, Fresenius Kabi provides a seamless transition, with the cost of change management covered by ourselves.
The implementation plan is coordinated by a dedicated Dysphagia Specialist, Key Account Manager and Primary Care Specialist:
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Our specialist team work closely with care homes and hospitals
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Initial time-bound activities are agreed with The Trust
-
Training and support is offered to HCPs and patients
-
We provide staff ‘drop in’ sessions and facilitate study days
-
‘Train the Trainer’ training is cascaded through the organisation
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Audit trails and statistical evidence are provided for compliance
We also provide:
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Annual training update for The Trust and local area, including Nursing homes and community hospitals
-
Template letters to communicate change and initiate prescription change
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Posters and ward reference guides
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Implementation planning and review meetings
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Training certificates and attendee training records
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Letters for GPs
Expectations and timelines
Training expectations
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All training sessions are pre-booked and modules agreed for 12 months
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Minimum attendees: six attendees per session with no maximum required
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Provide a training room suitable for practical demonstrations
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If the training needs to be rearranged, please give 48 hours’ notice
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To ensure safety, training can only be provided to care homes that use Thick & Easy Original or Thick & Easy Clear
Timelines
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Training sessions to be completed within 12 months. Four training sessions per year will be planned with each partner in a 12-month period. The dysphagia theory and practical session will be covered in one training session
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Able to carry out several sessions of one module to ensure all care staff have been trained
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Training will be repeated on an annual basis to ensure new staff are trained on dysphagia
We offer full tailored support and training for your care home.
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