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, syncing meals with glycemic control and drugs, creating safe food textures, tracking intake and hydration, precise documentation, discharge support, and teaching strategies to avoid malnutrition and hospital returns, thereby enhancing patient outcomes in nursing care.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
Gain hands-on skills in assessing and managing nutrition for older adults with diabetes, dysphagia, and complex conditions. Master interpreting weight and BMI, using screening tools, coordinating meals with glycemic control and medications, planning safe textures, monitoring intake and fluids, accurate documentation, discharge support, and teaching simple strategies to prevent malnutrition and readmissions.
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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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