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NURS 2750 - Nutrition and the Role of the Professional Nurse

Credits: 2
Hours/Week: Lecture NoneLab None
Course Description: This course introduces the student to the role of the nurse in promoting and supporting nutritional health. Emphasis is on the role nutrition plays in health promotion/prevention of illness, recovery from acute illness and/or management of chronic illness. Students learn to access evidence to support healthy nutritional choices that reduce risk factors for disease and/or illness across the lifespan. Students explore how culture, ethnicity, socio-economic status, nutritional trends and controversies, and integrative therapies influence the nutritional health of the client.
MnTC Goals
None

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the nursing program, BIOL 2031  with a grade of C or higher, PSYC 1020 , PSYC 1041 , COMM 1031  or COMM 1041  or COMM 1051 , General Education Electives 8 credits, Completion of NURS 2700  or NURS 2720  or concurrent enrollment, completion of BIOL 2032  with a grade of C or higher or concurrent enrollment,
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: Computer skills are essential.

Major Content
  1. Sources and functions of essential nutrients
  2. Food labels and interpretations
  3. Food Allergies and Implications to Patient Safety
  4. Nutritional Self-Care for the Nurse
  5. Influences on Nutritional Health
    1. Cultural
    2. Legal
    3. Economics
    4. Genetics
  6. Nurses¿ Role in Promoting Nutritional Health
    1. Importance of nutrition to health
    2. Determining Credibility of Nutritional Claims
    3. Collaboration with other Disciplines
    4. Nutritional Screenings and Education
  7. Nutrition and Weight Management through the lifespan
    1. Pregnancy
    2. Infants
    3. Childhood, include school lunches
    4. Teen
    5. Elderly
  8. Therapeutic diets and their Impact on Health, including:
    1. Sodium Restricted Diet
    2. Low Fat
    3. Diabetic/ Carb counting
    4. Fluid restricted: NPO, Clear liquids
    5. Integrative Modalities

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

  1. incorporate evidence, clinical judgment and client preferences in planning nutritional care of the client.
  2. identify the impact of socio cultural, economic, legal and political factors influencing nutritional health.
  3. assume accountability, through reflection, for personal nutritional self-care behaviors.
  4. identify integrative modalities and their role in nutritional health.
  5. discuss the unique nursing perspective in inter-professional teams to optimize client nutritional health.
  6. apply theories and concepts from the arts and sciences to provide prevention-based nutritional care of clients.
  7. assess protective and predictive factors, including genetics, which influence the nutritional health of individuals, families and communities.


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