Nutrition & Fluids: Supporting Patient Health Through Proper Nutrition

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    Health Care Ed

    Overview

    Proper nutrition and hydration are essential to maintaining health, preventing complications, and supporting recovery. Healthcare professionals play a vital role in ensuring patients receive safe, appropriate, and individualized nutritional care.

    This course provides practical guidance on nutrition fundamentals, dietary planning, feeding assistance, and food safety procedures used in healthcare environments. Learners will understand how diet affects healing, disease prevention, and patient safety while learning how to assist patients respectfully and effectively during meals.

    According to the course material, nutrition involves the ingestion, digestion, absorption, and use of food and fluids by the body — processes necessary for growth, healing, and normal body function.

    Learning Objectives

    By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
    • By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
    • Explain the importance of nutrition and hydration in maintaining physical and mental health
    • Identify major nutrients and their roles in body function
    • Recognize different therapeutic and special diets used in healthcare settings
    • Apply food safety practices to prevent foodborne illness

    Course contents

    Author

    Health Care Ed
    Registered Nurse and healthcare educator dedicated to supporting healthcare professionals through practical, compliance-focused continuing education designed to improve patient care and professional confidence.

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