Nutrition for Nurses Course
This course equips nurses with essential skills to manage nutrition in elderly patients facing diabetes, swallowing difficulties, and complex health issues. You will master assessing weight changes and BMI, using screening tools, coordinating meals with medications for blood sugar control, planning safe food textures, tracking intake and fluids, accurate documentation, discharge support, and teaching strategies to avoid malnutrition and hospital readmissions, enhancing patient outcomes in nursing care.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
Gain practical expertise in assessing and managing nutrition for older adults with diabetes, dysphagia, and complex conditions. Master interpreting weight changes and BMI, applying screening tools, aligning glycemic control with meals and drugs, designing safe textures, monitoring intake and fluids, documenting precisely, aiding discharge, and instructing on 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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