This course is specifically designed to provide a thorough grounding in all aspects of clinical nutrition and:
- summarise national nutrition drivers to provide a foundation for the course
- increase awareness of nutritional compromise and its consequences; give practical guidance on assessment of patients, and discuss particular patient groups (surgical patients, those with irritable bowel syndrome, renal disease, eating disorders and liver disease)
- discuss practicalities of feeding in terms of ethics, different methods of feeding and understand more about different techniques to give artificial nutrition
- establish principles of nutritional importance in extreme clinical situations (short bowel syndrome, refeeding syndrome, parenteral nutrition)
