HRS 2642 - SUPERVISED PRACTICE: CLINICAL 1

Minimum Credits: 5
Maximum Credits: 5
This course will provide supervised practice experience in the area of clinical dietetics. This course is designed to follow the topic sequence and content of HRS 2623: Advanced Medical Nutrition Therapy 1. It provides the students with the opportunity to apply their knowledge of the nutrition care process and medical nutrition therapy (MNT) to the practice of dietetics in the acute care setting. This involves planned learning experiences with a variety of patients at various stages of the health/illness continuum. Students will have opportunity to observe and then model the functions of a clinical dietitian. Through the combination of planned learning activities and professional interaction, the students will demonstrate increasing level of proficiency in providing comprehensive nutritional care to individuals within the practice setting. This course is the first of two courses which will provide clinical dietetics supervised practice experience. In this course the initial skills required for the nutrition care process will be mastered: nutrition assessment, diet interviewing, developing a care plan, written documentation, and nutrition education/counseling. Supervised practice experience caring for patients with the following disease states will be provided: feeding difficulties, energy imbalances, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus, and renal disease. During this course the student will begin to develop and construct their Quality Improvement (QI) Research project. This project will give each student the opportunity to work independently on a QI project at the primary clinical site. The project should focus on an area that is relevant to the site's Clinical Nutrition Department and/or the field of clinical dietetics. This is a two term project that will continue into HRS 2643: Supervised Practice: Clinical II.
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Clinical
Grade Component: Grad Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PLAN: Coordinated Mster in Dietetics (MS)

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