NURS 2741 - Nutrition Concepts for Nursing
1 Credits
Introduces the role of the nurse in promoting and supporting nutritional health. Emphasis is on the role of nutrition in health promotion, prevention of illness, recovery from acute illness and/or management of chronic illness. Students learn to access evidence to support healthy nutritional choices that reduce risk factors for disease and/or illness across the lifespan. Students explore how culture, ethnicity, socio-economic status, nutritional trends, genetics and integrative therapies influence the nutritional health of the client.
Major Content Areas
Nurses’ role in promoting nutritional health for self, patients, and communitiesSources and functions of essential nutrients Nutritional assessment, the nutritional care team, and patient-centered care Cultural, socio-economic, and legal factors that influence nutrition Caring for special nutrition-related considerations including food allergies, special diets Nutritional considerations for enteral and parenteral feedings Nutritional health, therapeutic diets and their influences on disease: a systems perspective Nutrition, malnutrition, and weight management through the lifespan
Learning Outcomes
Identify protective and predictive factors, including genetics, which influence the nutritional health of individuals, families and communities. Describe routes of administration. Demonstrate accountability, through reflection, for personal nutritional self-care behaviors. Apply theories and concepts from the arts and sciences to provide prevention-based nutritional care of clients. Apply theories and concepts from the arts and sciences to provide nutritional care of clients with illness or disease. Review evidence, clinical judgment, and client preferences in for planning nutritional care of the client. Identify the impact of socio-cultural, economic, legal, and political factors influencing nutritional health. Discuss the unique nursing perspective in professional teams to optimize client nutritional health.
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