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 and health promotion for select diseases. The focus of this course is to critically apply nutritional knowledge to personal, individual, and population health, including diverse and vulnerable populations 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.
Prerequisite
For nursing majors: NU 201, NU 202; for non-nursing majors: CH 101 or CH 111 and approval by nursing department.
Offered
Annual Spring Semester