NS3119 - Nutrition for Nursing Practice

Credit points:	03
Year:	2013
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
Administered by:	School of Nursing, Midwifery & Nutrition

This subject will provide the student with the skills and knowledge to assess and manage the nutritional status of individuals and groups within diverse clinical and cultural contexts. Students will learn the physiological basis of nutrition, nutritional requirements, the nature and composition of food groups, nutritional assessment and social, cultural and economic aspects of nutrition relevant to local, national and international settings.

Learning Outcomes

• understand the role of the Registered Nurse in relation to assessing, managing and promoting optimal nutritional status across the human lifespan in a range of client groups;
• gain skills and experience in nutrition assessment techniques, dietary advice and monitoring including an introduction to the nutrition care process that underpins delivery of effective clinical nutrition care in a variety of settings;
• identify nutritional needs of specific groups across the lifespan, from pregnnacy and lactation, infancy, childhood and adolescence, and maturity and ageing;
• discuss concepts related to promoting healthy families and communities, and the relationship between social, cultural and behavioural factors that influence nutritional intake and health;
• know and apply the national nutritional standards of reference for nutrition and the recommendations for weight management, eating disorders and food sensitivities in nutritional care planning.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
• The ability to evaluate that information;
• An understanding of the economic, legal, ethical, social and cultural issues involved in the use of information;
• The ability to select and organise information and to communicate it accurately, cogently, coherently, creatively and ethically;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
• The ability to read complex and demanding texts accurately, critically and insightfully;
• The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
• The ability to generate, calculate, interpret and communicate numerical information in ways appropriate to a given discipline or discourse;
• The ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences;
• The ability to work with people of different gender, age, ethnicity, culture, religion and political persuasion;
• The ability to work individually and independently;
• The ability to select and use appropriate tools and technologies;
• The ability to use online technologies effectively and ethically.

Prerequisites:

NS2022 AND NS2214 AND PP2131 AND PP2231

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 28-Mar-2013
Coord/Lect:	Ms Melinda Hammond.
Contact hours:	40 hours workshops/Seminars - Indicative only
Assessment:	end of semester exam (60%); assignments (40%).
External, Study Period 1
Census Date 28-Mar-2013
Coord/Lect:	Ms Melinda Hammond.
Method of Delivery:	WWW - LearnJCU
Assessment:	end of semester exam (60%); assignments (40%).
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 28-Mar-2013
Coord/Lect:	Ms Melinda Hammond.
Contact hours:	40 hours workshops/Seminars - Indicative only
Assessment:	end of semester exam (60%); assignments (40%).
Mount Isa, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 28-Mar-2013
Coord/Lect:	Ms Melinda Hammond.
Contact hours:	40 hours workshops/Seminars - Indicative only
Assessment:	end of semester exam (60%); assignments (40%).
Thursday Isl, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 28-Mar-2013
Coord/Lect:	Ms Melinda Hammond.
Contact hours:	40 hours workshops/Seminars - Indicative only
Assessment:	end of semester exam (60%); assignments (40%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.