Description
This course, although a nursing nutritional course, may be taken as a basic nutrition course for any of the health professions. This course will provide the beginning nursing student with a basic understanding of the study of nutrition from a nursing perspective through the discussion of the core concepts of person, health, nursing, nursing process, environment, teaching and learning, and professionalism in relation to the nutritional health of the person. This course prepares the student with the theory and skills required to administer nursing care to a variety of persons. In addition, the course content includes but is not limited to the discussion and application of basic nutrition, diet therapy, nutritional assessment, care of the client’s nutritional needs through various means including oral, tube, and parenteral access, and application of laboratory values. The skills the student will learn are related to the client’s assessed needs and include but are not limited to recognition of nutritional needs, therapeutic diets, performance of a nutritional assessment, documentation, nursing nutritional care plan, various feeding techniques, and a client nutritional teaching plan.
Program