Nutrition for Nurses Course
This course equips nurses with essential skills to handle 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, recording details precisely, aiding smooth transitions home, and sharing easy tips to avoid poor nutrition and hospital returns, ultimately boosting patient health in nursing care.

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 seniors with diabetes, dysphagia, and multiple health issues. Master reading weight shifts and BMI, employing screening tools, syncing glycemic management with food and meds, designing secure textures, overseeing intake and fluids, precise documentation, discharge support, and basic techniques 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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