Clinical Nutrition

Catalog description

This course explores the nurse's role in the management of therapeutic nutrition in promoting health and/or managing illness. The collaborative and teaching roles of the nurse are addressed, and specific interventions are identified for primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention for clients receiving nutritional therapy. Knowledge and interventions needed for maximizing therapeutic effects and preventing or minimizing adverse effects of therapy are emphasized. Offered spring semester only. Prerequisite or corequisite: BIO 162. Prerequisites: EN 101 and BIO 161.