Content Goals:
1. Explain the nursing knowledge necessary for care that addresses the nutritional needs of adult med-surg patients.
2. Describe assessment techniques to identify factors that affect nutrition in adult med-surg patients.
3. Explain how to use the nursing process as a clinical decision-making strategy for providing care that addresses the nutritional needs of adult med-surg patients.
4. Describe and prioritize caring nursing interventions that address the nutritional needs of adult med-surg patients.
5. Describe prevention strategies that address the nutritional needs of adult med-surg patients.
6. Practice communication techniques, including information technologies that address the nutritional needs of an adult med-surg patient.
7. Identify teaching strategies for health instruction that address the nutritional needs of adult med-surg patients.
8. Identify professional nursing behaviors in the clinical setting applicable to the care of adult med-surg patients with nutritional needs.
Meets Course Outcomes: 1 - 8