NURS 216 Nutrition In Healthcare III
Principles of nutrition for infant, maternal, and pediatric patients. Guidelines for nutritional requirements at preconception, perinatal, and birth through childhood. The principles of assessing nutritional status are included in looking at pertinent laboratory values, percentiles via a growth chart, and calculating a patient's BMI. How a patient's nutritional status affects growth and development from infancy through puberty. Assessing for normal growth patterns, and for nutritional deficits and metabolic conditions, as well as specialty diets that promote optimal outcomes. Principles are applied in a variety of clinical setting with maternal-child and pediatric patients.