Course Objective

To provide participants with information about how to deal with different patients in the hospitals & health care centers about the nutrition during the different diseases & health problems.

Course Content  

Principles & objectives of diet therapy.

Routine hospital diets:

 Regular diets – Mechanically altered on fiber-restricted diets – Liquid     

diets   – Diet for dysphagia.          

Alterations in feeding methods:

Special enteral feedings (tube feeding) – Parenteral feeding via peripheral vein – Parenteral feeding via central vein (TPN).

Diet therapy for surgical conditions:

 Pre- & post-operative nutrition – The post-operative diet regime.

Diet therapy for diabetes mellitus:

Diet therapy treatment – Basic nutrition Requirements – Caloric

 requirements – Nutrition distribution – Food exchange lists – Caring for

a diabetic child.

 Nutrition in the renal dialysis:

Patient education & counseling – Major resources – Teamwork.

Nutrition therapy in cancer:

 The body's response to cancer – The body's response to medical therapy –

Planning diet therapy.

Diet & the burn patient:

 Nutritional & dietary care – Calculating nutrient needs.

 Diet & immobilized patient:

 Introduction – Nitrogen balance – Calories – Calcium – Urinary & bowel

 functions

Who can benefit?

Health care providers (physicians, nurses, nurse assistants), dietary technicians, & other persons deal with nutrition in the hospitals & health care centers.

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