Nursing and Nutrition: Collaborating to Optimize Outcomes in the Hospital Setting
Publication Date: 29 August 2024
Continuing Education Units: Nurse Contact: 0.5
Course Description:
In this course, Megan Norwood, MBA, MS, RDN, LD, CNSC will identify the connection between nutrition and patient outcomes; discuss key nutrition considerations for nurses at admission, during admission, and at discharge; list the types of nutrition supplementation and artificial nutrition support and their indications; and review additional nutrition considerations for conditions that may escalate the nutritional risk to the patient.Course Objectives:
• Identify the connection between nutrition and patient outcomes.
• Discuss key nutrition considerations for nurses at admission, during admission, and at discharge.
• List the types of nutrition supplementation and artificial nutrition support and their indications.
• Review additional nutrition considerations for conditions that may escalate the nutritional risk to the patient.
- Run Time: 24
Course Instructor Bio(s)
Megan Norwood, MBA, MS, RDN, LD, CNSC
Director, Food and Nutrition
Medical City Healthcare, HCA Healthcare
Decatur, TX, USA
Megan Norwood is the Food and Nutrition Director at Medical City Healthcare. Previously, she was the Clinical Nutrition Director of HealthTrust Supply Chain Solutions. She has a B.S. in Nutrition from the University of Texas at Austin, an M.S. in Nutrition from Texas Woman’s University, and an MBA from the University of Texas at Tyler. She is a Registered Dietitian and a Certified Nutrition Support Clinician.
Abbott Nutrition’s Provider Statement for Nursing CEs:
Abbott Nutrition Health Institute is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the California Board of Registered Nursing Provider #CEP 11213.
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