The Nutrition Care Process of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics will be used to explore disease pathophysiology, diagnosis, medical and pharmacological treatments, and nutritional therapies. Students will examine and apply an understanding of complementary and integrative nutritional therapies on drugs, disease, and heath. The conditions that will be studied include cardiovascular disease, upper and lower gastrointestinal diseases, hepatic disease, renal disease, diabetes, diseases of the pancreas, cancer, HIV/AIDS, pulmonary disease, and critical illness. Students will be responsible for utilizing medical terminology and documentation and for identifying relevant current research to support their nutritional recommendations.

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.