Medical Nutrition Therapy I

Catalog description

The goal of this course is for the student to understand the nutrition care process as it applies to disease management, develop a variety of disease specific case studies, and the process for determining the appropriate disease or health condition specific nutrition intervention. Students are expected to integrate nutritional assessment information, drug-nutrient interaction data, disease pathophysiology, and Medical Nutrition Therapy principles to design nutrition care plans and apply disease specific medical terminology and abbreviations.