The Nightingale Trust for Nutritional Support is dedicated to the training of tomorrows experts with the provision of unique and pioneering educational courses.

This 5-day course is designed to cover day-to-day patient care and management issues faced by NNS’s. Essentially practical in nature, learning will be underpinned by relevant theory. NNS’s will learn and develop their knowledge from listening and learning from the course teachers and from each other through hands on practical sessions and discussion throughout the course. The teaching will be informal allowing students to ask questions in an informal and non-threatening environment.

The role of the NNS is varied, often determined by the establishment in which they work. Not every student who applies for this course will be undertaking all the roles covered. As their working environment grows and changes, so will the roles they are expected to fulfil.

Although not all NNS’s will be inserting intravenous access devices for parenteral support (PS), or placing gastrostomy, jejunostomy, naso enteral tubes or nasal loops currently, this is something that all NNSs should have an understanding. As this is essentially a practical course we have not currently applied for academic validation. This allows us to keep the cost of attending low, and any written work required by the students to a minimum.

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