2017-2018 Catalog

NB353 Therapeutic Nutrition

This course will provide the student with an overview of nutritional therapy for diabetes, cardiac, renal, cancer, and gastrointestinal disorders. Practical applications and treatment of nutrition-related pathologies will be emphasized. Basic knowledge will be introduced to enable students to begin to evaluate nutritional issues and apply therapeutic nutrition principles to client care through the nursing process. Classroom: 3 hour.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

200-level nursing courses and 200-level science requirements or approval of instructor.