Evaluation of a workshop on nutritional management for healthcare workers involved in home medical care

Abstract

Since very few registered dieticians are involved in home medical care in Toyota City Japan, the role of registered dieticians is not understood by healthcare workers providing home medical care. A workshop to teach care workers (n=15), nurses (n=8), and rehabilitation workers (n=13) the importance of nutritional management and increase their awareness of the roles of registered dieticians was held. Whether people who completed the workshop hadincreased expectations of registered dieticians was then investigated. The results showed that, though all healthcare workers thought nutritional management was necessary, they perceived their own knowledge of nutritional management as inadequate. It was also shown that the demand for registered dieticians and the level of interest in nutritional management differed depending on job category. In the future, it will be necessary to investigate workshop programs aligned with the needs of each profession.