Nutrition for Nurses Course
This course equips nurses with essential skills to manage nutrition in elderly patients facing diabetes, swallowing difficulties, and serious illnesses. You will master evaluating weight changes and BMI, applying screening methods, balancing blood sugar through diet and drugs, creating safe food textures, tracking consumption and hydration, precise record-keeping, discharge planning, and patient education to avoid malnutrition and hospital returns, enhancing care quality in Botswana nursing settings.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
Gain hands-on expertise in assessing and handling nutrition for older adults with diabetes, dysphagia, and complex conditions. Master interpreting weight shifts and BMI, employing screening tools, syncing glycemic control with meals and meds, designing safe food consistencies, overseeing intake and fluids, accurate documentation, discharge support, and teaching easy tactics to curb malnutrition and repeat hospital stays.
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Develop skills
- Geriatric nutrition assessment: quickly spot malnutrition and weight-loss risk.
- Dysphagia-safe feeding: apply textures, positioning, and aspiration precautions.
- Diabetes meal management: align carbs, insulin, and acute illness nutrition.
- Nutrition support planning: design high-protein, high-energy, individualized plans.
- Discharge nutrition coaching: give clear home feeding and follow-up instructions.
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