Clinical Nutrition Course for nurses
Program Overview
This course focuses on developing the nurse’s knowledge, skills and practice of clinical nutrition related to pediatric oncology to be able to deal with nutritional problems associated with this disease & its treatment.
Program Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to
- Define screening& assessment of nutritional status.
- Identify different lines of therapy on nutrition.
- List all principles of dietary assessment.
- List all principles of food safety.
- Identify patients at risk of malnutrition.
- List indications and complications of each route of enteral feeding.
- List indications of parenteral feeding.
- Recognize precautions to avoid complications of parenteral feeding.
Schedule
From: 3/10/2022 To: 28/11/2022
| Date | Time | Topic | Speaker |
| Monday 3/10/2022 | 10:00 am– 11:00 am (60 min) | Discloser and Pre-test | Mrs. Gehan Mohamed |
| 11:00 am – 01:00 pm (120 min) | Role of Nutrition as Preventive and Curative Measures in Pediatric Oncology | Dr. Gulsen Saleh | |
| Monday 10/10/2022 | 10:00 am– 12:00 pm (120 min) | Screening and Assessment | Dr. Yasmin Saad |
| Monday 17/10/2022 | 10:00 am– 12:00 pm (120 min) | Calculation of Required needs | Dr. Samer Mohamed |
| Monday 24/10/2022 | 10:00 am– 12:00 pm (120 min) | Nutritional Support | Dr. Yasmin Saad |
| Monday 31/10/2022 | 10:00 am– 12:00 pm (120 min) | Nutritional Challenges in Pediatric Oncology | Dr. Amr Eldesouqi |
| Monday 7/11/2022 | 10:00 am– 12:00 pm (120 min) | Enteral Feeding | Dr. Samer Mohamed |
| Monday 14/11/2022 | 10:00 am– 12:00 pm (120 min) | Parenteral Feeding | Dr. Hadeer Nazmi |
| Monday 21/11/2022 | 10:00 am– 12:00 pm (120 min) | BMT Nutritional Interventions | Dr. Eman Zakaria |
| Monday 28/11/2022 | 10:00 am– 11:00 am (60 min) | Evaluation & Posttest | Mrs. Gehan Mohamed |
Target Audience
Postgraduate nurses.
NCPD
This course is offering 18 ANCC credit hours provided by Nursing Continuing Professional Development Unit (NCPD) in Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt, which is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.