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Nutritional Care (3 cr)

Code: TH00BV84-3008

General information


Enrollment

02.12.2024 - 05.03.2025

Timing

01.03.2025 - 30.11.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

3 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Emergency Care, Public Health Nursing and Midwifery

Campus

Kupittaa Campus

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

10 - 30

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Emergency Care

Teachers

  • Johanna Kurtti

Groups

  • PENHOK25
  • 17.03.2025 10:00 - 11:30, Ravitsemushoito TH00BV84-3008
  • 24.03.2025 08:15 - 11:30, Ravitsemushoito TH00BV84-3008
  • 01.04.2025 12:30 - 15:45, Ravitsemushoito TH00BV84-3008

Objective

Objectives
• Students will be familiar with nutrients and understand the need and significance of nutrients
• Students will be able to assess the nutritional needs of people
• Students will know how to apply the Finnish nutrition recommendations in the prevention and treatment of national diseases
• Students will be able to cooperate with a multidisciplinary expert network to integrate nutritional care and guidance into the nursing of internal medicine and surgical patients

Content

Contents
• Nutritional needs and the roles of nutrients in the human organism
• Assessment of the nutritional status of customers and the importance of the assessment
• The importance of diets that comply with the dietary guidelines in promoting health and preventing endemic diseases
• Nutritional care and counselling for internal medicine and surgical patients and special diets most commonly associated with these ailments

Evaluation scale

H-5