Training

Enhancing the quality of care for individuals requiring nutritional requires comprehensive training and education of their caregivers. While all healthcare professionals share this responsibility nurses play a pivotal role as the primary providers of this care for 24 hours a day. The Nightingale Trust has developed a gold standard nutrition nursing course that addresses practical skills, troubleshooting strategies, and pertinent professional issues.

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Next course 3rd – 7th August 2026

A 5 day course specifically designed to enhance knowledge, skills and advancement in practice for Nutrition Nurses.

Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Birmingham

Download PROSPECTUS and APPLICATION FORM here.

Nutrition Nurse Course: Training tomorrow’s experts

The role of the Nutrition Nurse Specialist is varied but usually involves facilitating excellent care for people receiving nutritional support. Development of specialist knowledge, skills and evidence-based practice are at the forefront of the role.

This innovative course provides nurses with underpinning knowledge and a range of practical skills in enteral and parenteral nutrition management. A mixed methods approach is taken to teaching including presentation, practical sessions, group discussion and reflective practice. Course participants are encouraged to consider how they can take their learning forward into quality improvement within their clinical area. See the course prospectus for the latest information.

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“It was excellent. Really good communication & teaching. Clear, comprehensive, approachable, practical”
Amy Freeman, Nutrition Nurse, Norfolk & Norwich Hospital

“A privilege to be on the course”
Joanne Kemp, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham

“Will recommend to others”
Nicky Lampshire, Falmouth Hospital, Cornwall

“Very knowledgeable (lecturers), but course delivered in a relaxed open atmosphere.”–
Joanne Glover, Nobles Hospital, Isle of Man

“I was fortunate enough to attend your last session at Birmingham. I would just like to thank you again, for providing a fantastic course which has already benefited myself as a staff nurse on the ward. I am able to practice with confidence thanks to you and your colleagues. It’s that good that everyone should attend!!”
Kirstie Hood, Queens’ Medical Centre, Nottingham, 2015

“I wish I had this when I came into post!”
Donna Wainman, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, 2014

Supply of Training Aids

We provide hospitals with a contribution for textbooks and training Mannequins