Nutrition Onboarding Portal

About this resource

The nutrition portal is a link to everything related to the integrated management of malnutrition in children in OCB. Don't reinvent the wheel! 

By registering on this portal, you will have access to a comprehensive package including: an online training on management of malnutrition in children from 1-59 months following the community-based management of acute malnutrition model (CMAM) as well as access to a variety of other important trainings and resources that should be used in your project as part of the integrated management of malnutrition in children (emergency pediatric care, triage, nursing care (vital signs, wound care, enteral nutrition, etc.).

Target audience

This portal is intended for anyone who is new to a nutrition project and wishes to upgrade their knowledge.  It is also suitable for people who are looking for information on more specific topics related to the management of these projects or who wish to revise/check updated material. This course is designed for medical/para-medical and medical management positions.  But is also open to non-medical profiles interested in the topic, especially related to emergencies.  

If limited time, emergency profiles should focus on course: 

Learning objectives

Using this portal should enable you to:

  • Increase your knowledge on malnutrition and related topics (paeds, etc.) in order to feel comfortable in a nutrition project
  • Feel confident providing quality care to patients and detecting warning signs 
  • Identify roles and responsibilities for key position in nutrition projects
  • Link with the community of practice and help to develop a strong and supportive network
  • Be able to find resources related to the nutrition project and platforms to contact with advisors for support

List of contents

  • Training on nutrition: basics of a nutrition program, wound care, etc.
  • Training on tropical paediatrics
  • Exchange with peers and advisors: Sherlog, etc.
  • Learning nutrition “on the job”: self-assessment, competencies framework, etc.
  • Access to key nutrition resources: Tembo, OCB Intranet, Community of Practice (CoP), patient documentation, etc.
  • Nutrition FIELD TRAINING package
  • Nutrition emergencies
  • SMART survey

Enrolment

This portal is accessible to all. Please note this was created for OCB staff but might be relevant for other OCs.