Diet Therapy & Hospital Practice I

Introduction to dietary management in disease states, consideration for factors in patients care plan, coordinated nutritional services for patients, therapeutic adaptation of the normal diet and problems of planning therapeutic diets using local foods.  Principles or nutritional modification for the underweight, protein energy, malnutrition, nutritional care plan and dietary treatment, nutrient need in surgery – postoperative nutritional care following gastrointestinal tract surgery; study of the diet for the vulnerable group, diarrhea in infants; oral rehydration.