Section: 8.11 - Nutrition | Fundamentals of Nursing | NextGenU.org

  • Student Learning Outcomes:

    • Describe the digestion and metabolism of nutrients.
    • Identify nutrition requirements across the lifespan.
    • Discuss patterns of altered nutrition and eating disorders.
    • Interpret laboratory studies used to assess nutrition.
    • Discuss nursing interventions to maintain nutritional status of clients in the primary, secondary, and tertiary care settings.

    Approximate time required for the readings for this lesson (at 144 words/minute): 1 hour 29 minutes.

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    • Required Learning Resources and Activities
    • Read: Nutrition Basic Concepts to Applying the Nursing Process. (1 hour 7 minutes)

      Open Resources for Nursing (Open RN)

    • Read the entire article. (17 minutes)

      Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

    • Read the entire article. (5 minutes)

       American Nurse Association

    • Slide Deck Presentation
    • Clinical Skills

    • Quiz Unit

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      Quiz: Case Study: Nutrition in the Cognitively Impaired

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      Quiz: Unit 8.11

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