Importance of clinical care nutrition support; Nutritional screening and assessment; The therapeutic process, stress of the therapeutic encounter, focus of care, phases of the care process; Quality patient care and collaborative roles of nutritionists and nurses; Modified diets for various physiological needs; Enteral nutritional: composition, nutritional prescription (dose), strategies to optimize delivery and minimize risks, pediatric enteral feeding; Total parenteral nutrition; composition, intravenous nutritional prescription (dose) for specific conditions; Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy and radiologically inserted gastrostomy; Complications in enteral and parenteral nutrition; Nutritional therapy in diseases of infancy and childhood; Drug-nutrient interactions: drug effects on food and nutrients, food effects on drug absorption, food effects on drug; Dietary supplements.
Nutritional assessment of patients: selection, nutritional requirements; Tube feeding: types, feeding equipment, preparation and application of enteral/naso-gastric diets, monitoring the tube- fed patient; Total parenteral nutrition: basic rules, techniques, prescription, preparation of total parenteral solution; Preparation of pre- and post-operative diets; Case studies and logbooks;
Hospital visits.
To understand and create a patient-centered nutrition care plan based on sound nutrition principles, scientific evidence and biomedical reasoning
To assess various physiological conditions and prepare diet plans accordingly
To acquaint hands-on training in the field of enteral and parenteral nutrition
