Medical Nutrition Therapy II

Catalog description

The goal of this course is for the student to apply the nutrition care process and MNT principles to critical and acute disease management including fluid/electrolyte/acid-base balance, nutrition support, nutritional therapy in critical care, oncology, pulmonary diseases and muscular skeletal, immunological diseases. The student will develop a variety of disease specific case studies and nutrition interventions. Students are expected to integrate nutritional assessment information; drug-nutrient interaction data, disease pathophysiology, and Medical Nutrition Therapy principles to design nutrition care plan and apply medical terminology and abbreviations.