NUR-491 |
Global Outreach |
The goal of interprofessional education is to prepare future healthcare providers and professionals to work together as a team to improve patient and population health care . This includes engaging in foundational research on interprofessional education / collaborative practice ; the use of interprofessional collaborative practice models to provide better care for clients . Service learning provides an opportunity for health care providers to learn more about health vulnerabilities that communities face and gain firsthand experience of working with underserved populations . Service learning uses experiential learning , reflection and reciprocal learning to increase student awareness of community health needs . Health care providers will be more likely to utilize these skills of collaborative practice , experiential learning , reflection and reciprocal learning in their own clinical practice . |
NUT-200 |
Principles of Nutrition |
A comprehensive course that covers the essentials of optimum nutrition in health and disease . It includes macro-nutrients and energy metabolism ; vitamins and minerals ; nutrition and diet for the client . The course includes an examination of clinical nutrition as it pertains to care of clients in a health care setting . |