NUTR100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Dietitian, Fad Diet, Nephrology

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Nutrition
• Course: NUTR100
• Professor: Sabina Valentine

Document Summary

There are definitely going to questions from this. Make a plan, implement the plan and monitor the patient. Food science and nutrition and a year-long in internship who has done in all three sections but not paid: dietician. Clinical: you can specialize in cardiology, nephrology, cancer care and so on. The nutrition care process: systematic approach to care for the patient, 4 steps. Nutrition assessment: first real step of nutrition assessment. Rd collects bunch of food and nutrition related data, biochemistry/biochemical values, electrolyte (high blood pressure: na), medical tests, anthropometrics, medical history. Look at all the information related to the patient. We can calculate energy requirement for the patient. Nutrition diagnosis: patient has high sodium intakes related to high blood pressure so the dietician is going to help him in that. This plan will help to alleviate the problem. Monitoring and evaluation: determines whether achieved or progressed towards the goal.