This course covers the application of clinical nutrition and you will learn how diet and nutrition impacts the health of individuals. This course will provide you detailed scientific understanding about nutritional screening, assessment, and applying diet therapy for improving patient's health.

In this course, wou will learn how to perform nutritional assessments in various disease conditions. It will also enable you with knowledge on the best practices of managing nutrition support therapy in different patient conditions. By the end of the course, you should be able to apply evidenced based recommendations to nutrition care to specific patient population.

You will learn about

1. Application of nutrition principles to disease prevention and treatment.
2. Medical terminology associated with nutrition-related diseases and conditions.
3. The role of diet in the development of chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, etc.
4. How to plan a therapeutic diet according to the individual or patients requirement in disease.
5. Monitoring and evaluating nutrition therapy.
6. Educating the patients and family regarding nutritional care to be followed for various conditions.
7. Management of nutritional needs of serious and critically ill patients.