2018-2019 Academic Catalog

NU 208 Nutrition for Healthcare Professionals

This course is designed for students of nursing and other health care professions. It covers the major classes of nutrients and their main functions, the role nutrition plays across the lifespan, the relationship between nutrition and disease, and nutritional therapies for select diseases. The focus of this course is to critically apply nutritional knowledge to personal, individual, and population health, including diverse and vulnerable people within various health care settings and the community. Students will also examine community, national, and global nutritional issues with an emphasis on social, political, economic, and environmental factors.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

For nursing majors: NU 201, NU 202; for non nursing majors: CH 101 or CH 111 and approval by nursing department.

Faculty

Burkholder, Stephanie |

Offered

Annual Spring Semester