Module Code - Title:
NM4163
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NUTRITION FOR NURSING PRACTICE
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
This module connects previous learning providing undergraduate students with an understanding of key nursing contributions to person centred care in relation to nutrition, hydration and elimination.
Syllabus:
Physiology of digestion, metabolism and utilisation of nutrient components for the promotion and maintenance of health and prevention of disease.
Biopsychosocial and culture dimensions to the fundamentals of promoting healthy nutrition, hydration and elimination. Assessment, interventions and management for persons experiencing dehydration, undernutrition, malnutrition and obesity. Person centred practices at mealtime. Diabetes, osteoporosis, anaemia, inflammatory bowel disease, promoting continence and preventing constipation.
Clinical skills:
Nutritional assessment
Assisting individuals with eating drinking and swallowing difficulties
Enteral and parenteral management of nutrition (PEG feeding)
Blood glucose monitoring
Insulin administration techniques
Continence assessment
Urinary catheterisation care
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
Discuss nutrition as an essential component of health and recovery from illness.
Demonstrate an understanding of factors influencing the maintenance and promotion of nutritional health.
Discuss the nursing assessment and management of persons with altered nutrition, hydration and elimination.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
Acknowledge the collaborative role of the nurse in the provision of integrated care and support to persons with nutrition, hydration and elimination needs across hospital and community settings.
Value the role of the nurse in promoting person centred care in meeting nutrition, hydration and elimination needs.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
Demonstrate ability to perform nursing clinical skills associated with the module.
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
Building on foundational knowledge this module explores the fundamentals of healthy nutrition, applied to safe and effective person-centred nursing in clinical practice. Knowledge and collaboration is developed through engaged learning modalities for example lectures, clinical skills laboratories, small group discussions, case and problem based approaches. Students will take increased responsibility for learning becoming proactive in seeking and using evidence.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Hinkle, J. L., Cheever, K. H. and Overbaugh, K. J. (2022)
Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing. 15th Ed.
, Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer.
Grodner, M., Escott-Stump, S. and Dorner, S. (2021)
Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications: A Nursing Approach. 8th Ed.
, London: Elsevier
Dunning, T. and Sinclair, A. (2020)
Care of People with Diabetes: A Manual for Healthcare Practice, 5th Ed.
, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell
Other Relevant Texts:
Berman, A., Snyder, S. and Frandsen, G. (2021)
Kozier & Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing: Concepts, Process and Practice, 11th Ed.
, Essex: Pearson.
Lister, S., Hofland, J. and Grafton, H. (2020)
The Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures, Professional Edition, 10th Ed.
, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
BSNUGEUFA - NURSING (GENERAL)
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Autumn
Module Leader:
liz.kingston@ul.ie