Scaling up a national program to improve hospital nutrition care in line with the new Canadian malnutrition standard

The Canadian Nutrition Society is Canada’s leading society for nutrition professionals. As a Fellow, I will work with the Canadian Malnutrition Taskforce—CNS’ flagship initiative—to support integration of a new malnutrition care standard in Canadian hospitals. Advancing Malnutrition Care (AMC) was designed to bring best practices from this standard to hospitals across the country. The aim of my project is to lead the spreading and scaling of the AMC program with focus on capacity-building within the Canadian health system. My roles include: 1) Building regional mentor and hospital champion capacity to support implementation of best practices in malnutrition care; 2) Understanding mentor and champion experiences to learn of barriers and opportunities they face; 3) Monitoring hospital-level progress and corresponding impacts of implementing best practices; 4) Planning knowledge mobilization and assessing sustainability. This work will be used to improve the AMC initiative and has the potential to improve hospital nutrition care across Canada.

Faculty Supervisor:

Heather Keller

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Partner:

Canadian Nutrition Society

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Waterloo

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