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'll master assessing weight and BMI, using screening tools, managing blood sugar through diet and meds, creating safe food textures, tracking intake and fluids, accurate record-keeping, discharge planning, and teaching strategies to avoid malnutrition and hospital readmissions, boosting patient outcomes in your daily work.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
Gain hands-on skills to evaluate and handle nutrition for older adults with diabetes, dysphagia, and complex conditions. Master interpreting weight changes and BMI, applying screening tools, syncing glycemic control with meals and drugs, designing safe food textures, monitoring intake and fluids, precise documentation, discharge support, and straightforward teaching methods 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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