Module: Clinical Nutrition

Module Specifications.

Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title	Clinical Nutrition
Module Code	NS314 (ITS) / HEA1012 (Banner)
Faculty	Science & Health	School	Nursing, PsyT & Comm Health
Module Co-ordinator	Keith Rochfort
Module Teachers	Claire Timon, Joanne Cleary-Holdforth
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	5
Pre-requisite	Not Available
Co-requisite	Not Available
Compatibles	Not Available
Incompatibles	Not Available

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Description

This module covers the dietary assessment, management and treatment of common-nutrient related diseases/conditions in the clinical setting

Learning Outcomes

1. Understand the principles of nutrition assessment of adults in the clinical setting
2. Comprehend the dietary management of a patient with diabetes
3. Be familiar with the dietary management of a patient with cardiovascular disease
4. Be familiar with the dietary management of a patient with stroke
5. Appreciate the principles of the dietary management of patients with gastrointestinal
6. Appreciate the principles of the dietary management of patients with gastrointestinal disease (e.g. conditions related to the stomach, liver, pancreas, gall-bladder, inflammatory bowel disease)
7. Understand the dietary management of a patient with different forms of cancers
8. Comprehend the principles and application of oral, enteral and parenteral nutrition in the hospital setting

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Lecture	24	No Description
Independent Study	101	No Description
Total Workload: 125

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Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Topics
This module will give the students a very good understanding of how to assess, manage and treat a range of common nutrition related conditions that present in the health care setting, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke, gastrointestinal conditions, and different forms of cancer.

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown
Group project	The students are required to prepare a factsheet from a list of supplied health conditions and make a group presentation on it to the wider class	50%	Week 10

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories: Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module. Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module. Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1

Indicative Reading List

on behalf of the BDA: 2014, Manual of Dietetic Practice, 5th Edition, Published by Wiley-Blackwell, University of Hertfordshire, UK, 1119235928
on behalf of the BDA: 2016, Dietetic and Nutrition Case Studies Judy Lawrence, Joan Gandy, Pauline Douglas May 2016 384 pages I, Wiley-Blackwell, UK, ISBN 97811188

Other Resources

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