Nutritional Therapy

Catalog description

This course is an overview of the practice of clinical nutrition. The pathogenesis, altered requirements due to disease states and/or concomitant therapeutic measures, interactions between drugs and nutrient requirements, and subsequent rationale for nutritional management of the patient will be explored. Methods for patient feeding, including parenteral as well as enteral routes, are discussed with respect to advantages and disadvantages of each technique, concerns regarding the cost efficiency, and formula composition and preparation methods. Students will learn to chart nutrition notes in medical charts using the SOAP system.