NURS 136 Nutrition In Healthcare II
Principles of nutrition for the adult with a focus on specialty diets to manage acute and chronic health alterations. Included are guidelines for meeting adequate nutritional needs in the adult patient that contribute to positive outcomes. Instruction focuses on the assessment of the patient condition and consideration of comorbidities to manage the types of diets that promote healing. Additionally, the principles of assessing nutritional status are included in looking at pertinent laboratory values, pharmacological considerations, and a patient's ability to ingest and digest their food. The curriculum includes extensive planning for managing adequate nutritional intake, as well as consulting with interprofessional health care team to meet a patient's changing nutritional needs. These classroom principles are applied practically in the clinical setting with hospitalized patients, and the students perform assessments on their patients that include nutritional status, as well as elimination needs that can be partially addressed by their nutritional intake. This content is embedded into and taught seamlessly with the theory content in NURS 130.