Core Groups Updates
Sarah Brownlie, NNNG Communications Officer
Email: nationalnursesnutritiongroup@gmail.com
Website: www.nnng.org.uk
Instagram: nationalnursesnutritiongroup
Twitter: @NNNGUK
Members only Facebook Group/discussion board: NNNG (National Nurses Nutrition Group)
Linkedin: National Nurses Nutrition Group (NNNG)
An Evolving Landscape of Nutrition: Pathways, Decisions and Rationale
The National Nurses Nutrition Group (NNNG) are delighted to host another CPD-accredited conference on 14th June, specifically designed to enable nutrition nurses to benefit from a day of teaching in the beautiful location of York. This year we open the door to other members of the nutrition community, including students, to ensure we are seeking the best of each other’s knowledge and skill sets. It has become ever increasingly important with the complexities of patients requiring nutrition support in this ever-evolving landscape to have the ability to look at nutrition through a variety of lenses. Learning from our colleagues and sharing nutrition nurses’ experiences will hopefully create an NNNG conference not quite like any other.
We look forward to the industry’s showcase, a welcome evening with Special guest Philip Shelley, the Chair of the NHS Review of Hospital Food, and educational workshops including: blended diet, recognising malnutrition in the bariatric cohort, and eating disorders: implementing emergency guidelines within eating disorders and the importance of women’s health. We must not forget the importance of coming together and networking. The ability to meet and understand the variety of Nutrition Nurses roles is always motivational and inspiring. This is a fantastic opportunity to grow networks and to meet likeminded healthcare professionals. Nutrition Nursing teams may be small but we sure are mighty. We can’t wait to see you there!
Registration is open now:
https://nnng.evessiocloud.com/nnngconference2023/en/page/book-now
NNNG area guide for those looking for alternative accomodation: www.nnngconference.co.uk/area-guide
Don’t forget, if you are a member of NNNG we offer a special discount exclusively for NNNG members!
Reflect, Restore, Regain (RRR)
The RRR clinical supervision programme for Nutrition Nurses has kicked off to a great start. Those partaking have brainstormed some fantastic quality improvement projects and the taught breathing techniques have been put into nurse’s everyday practice. We know Nutrition Nursing can have a significant emotional demand and so we can’t wait to see this clinical supervision programme grow from strength to strength. We hope this model will improve nurses’ wellbeing and ensure Nutrition Nurses have a safe space to share everyday challenges with others who may have similar experiences.
If this is something you would like to know more about, please visit: https://nnng.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Reflecting-Restoring-and-Regaining-a-Programme-Using-Clinical-Supervision-Models-to-Care-for-Nutrition-Nurses-Caring-for-Patients.pdf
What’s New from the NNNG?
Good Practice Guidelines
In preparation for conference, our new Good Practice Guidelines: Safe insertion and ongoing care of nasogastric (NG) feeding tubes in adults will be released. We hope this document will support all healthcare practitioners inserting NG tubes.
CO-OPT membership
The NNNG are keen to freshen up our CO-OPT membership. This well valued role offers you the opportunity to get involved with the committee and bring to the table topics, interests or ideas that are important to you. Current Co-opted members are looking at guidelines and helping support educational resources. If you have any ideas to share, we want to hear from you!
Congratulations
To all nominees for the British Journal of Nursing (BJN) award for Nutrition Nurse of the year, congratulations! All of your work is inspiring, and the talent showcased in the nominations is more and more remarkable each year. The role of Nutrition Nurses continues to grow and expand, so we are extremely pleased to have celebrated all your incredible hard work. A huge congratulations to Charlotte Rubio the winner of BJN Nutrition Nurse of the Year 2023. Good luck to all nominees in the upcoming CN Awards!
Carolyn Wheatley, PINNT Chair
Email: comms@pinnt.com
Website: www.pinnt.com
Facebook: @PINNTcharity
Twitter: @pinntcharity
Instagram: @pinntcharity
Address: PO Box 3126, Christchurch, Dorset BH23 2XS
Telephone: 020 3004 6193
PINNT groups
We are delighted to be launching some new groups during 2023, so members can meet locally and benefit from meeting people in similar positions face-to-face. We are thankful for our volunteers who commit to arranging local events so people can share ideas, inspire each other and answer questions that only those living with artificial nutrition can truly understand.
HAN Week 2023
Home Artificial Nutrition (HAN) Week: 7 – 13 August 2023. More information will be shared soon. If you have an idea or event you would like to showcase during HAN Week 2023, please contact us on: comms@pinnt.com – we’d love to hear from you.
PINNT is delighted to be supporting the BAPEN Patient Network Development group, we have been working towards this for a long time and we look forward to developing a network which will benefit those on home artificial nutrition.
PINNT membership
Free to people on HAN (full member) and relatives, friends or interested individuals (associate members). Industry partners also welcomed. Full and associate members can join via this link: https://pinnt.com/Membership.aspx - new industry partners please contact us via email on: comms@pinnt.com.
Akshay Batra, BAPEN representative of the Nutrition and Intestinal Failure Working group (NIFWG) of BSPGHAN
Email: Akshay.Batra@uhs.nhs.uk
Website: www.bspghan.org.uk
The British Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition (BSPGHAN) had its annual meeting from the 8th to the 10th of March at the De Vere Beaumont Estate, Windsor.
The 3-day meeting comprised of a postgraduate day on Wednesday, followed by the main conference on Thursday and Friday. This included a nutrition workshop on day 1 and half-a-day of sessions focused on Nutrition on Friday morning. These sessions were very well attended and there was good engagement from the audience.
The post-graduate day consisted of a workshop on the use of a blended diet and a parent’s perspective on its use. There was a session on the role of nutrition in optimising the management of inflammatory bowel disease and a symposium on the use of Glucagon Like peptide -2 in children with intestinal failure, with an equal emphasis on ongoing research and real-world experience. The nutrition half-day had exciting and varied topics ranging from methods of normalising eating and drinking in children with intestinal failure to outcomes of children with no-gut syndrome.
The meeting was accompanied by a matching social programme with an elegant gala dinner.
The Joint Intestinal Rehabilitation meeting was held on Thursday 23rd February 2023 at Leeds General Infirmary, discussing complex paediatric intestinal failure patients.
The other meeting planned this year are:
- Annual complex nutrition and intestinal failure meeting to be held in Nottingham, in September 23. This would be a face-to-face meeting hosted by the IF team at Nottingham Children’s Hospital and would involve sharing experiences from centres across the country.
- BSPGHAN Education series continues to provide an excellent virtual meeting monthly covering different topics with sessions on Nutritional Management every 3 months.
BSPGHAN is involved in work on using non-compounded and hybrid PN for children with type 3 intestinal failure to get paediatric services in line with the adult services across the country and increased use of Standardised Parenteral Nutrition (PN) in children outside the neonatal units.
We look forward to the BAPEN conference in November, with active participation from our members in all sessions including the half-day BSPGHAN session.