Module Details

Module Code: ZNUT C3101
Module Title: Identifying and managing patients with special nutritional needs.
Title: Nutrition
Module Level:: 7
Credits:: 5
Module Coordinator: Paula Rankin
Module Author:: Paula Rankin
Domains:  
Module Description: To provide students with the knowledge, skills and competencies required to optimise the management of patients requiring a range of nutritional supports. The focus of this module is on the role of nutrition to support recovery (e.g. enteral feeds following surgery) and the management of patients with special dietary requirements, e.g. people with chronic kidney disease or coeliac condition. The management of obesity is not within the scope of this module.
 
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module the learner will be able to:
# Learning Outcome Description
LO1 Describe the range of nutritional supplements (e.g. sip feeds or high-energy supplements), enteral feeds and specialised formulas that are available. Explain the criteria used to select appropriate products to meet the varied nutritional needs of a wide range of patients.
LO2 Outline the role of diet and nutritional supplements, in maintaining health and supporting recovery from illness, for a range of patients with diverse nutritional needs.
LO3 Inform and advise in community, hospital, or residential care settings, in relation to a nutrition prescription.
LO4 Provide information on a range of medicine-related issues for people with specific nutritional needs, e.g. administration of medicines to patients with swallowing difficulties.
Dependencies
Module Recommendations

This is prior learning (or a practical skill) that is recommended before enrolment in this module.
No recommendations listed
Co-requisite Modules
No Co-requisite modules listed
Additional Requisite Information
No Co Requisites listed
 
Indicative Content
Nutrition
Peg feeding, food replacement supplements, sip feeds, total parental nutrition, MUST tool for screening, infant nutrition (e.g.PKU), food allergy, dysphasia, medicine crushing, enteral feeding. Special dietary needs, e.g. chronic kidney disease, coeliac conditions, cows milk protein allergy, lactose intolerance, patients with chronic wounds.
Module Content & Assessment
Assessment Breakdown%
Practical50.00%
End of Module Formal Examination50.00%

Assessments

Full Time

No Continuous Assessment
No Project
Practical
Assessment Type Practical/Skills Evaluation % of Total Mark 50
Timing n/a Learning Outcomes 1,2,3,4
Non-marked No
Assessment Description
Students will be required to demonstrate knowledge and competence in a number of areas, including assessment of case studies and patient histories, addressing common problems around requisitioning and administering specialised nutritional supports to patients, screening patients at risk of malnutrition in both a community and residential care setting and accessing information on appropriate administration of medicines to patients with relevent needs.
End of Module Formal Examination
Assessment Type Formal Exam % of Total Mark 50
Timing End-of-Semester Learning Outcomes 1,2,3,4
Non-marked No
Assessment Description
Final summative exam

Part Time

No Continuous Assessment
No Project
Practical
Assessment Type Practical/Skills Evaluation % of Total Mark 50
Timing n/a Learning Outcomes 1,2,3,4
Non-marked No
Assessment Description
Students will be required to demonstrate knowledge and competence in a number of areas, including assessment of case studies and patient histories, addressing common problems around requisitioning and administering specialised nutritional supports to patients, and accessing information on appropriate administration of medicines to patients with relevent needs.
End of Module Formal Examination
Assessment Type Formal Exam % of Total Mark 50
Timing End-of-Semester Learning Outcomes 1,2,3,4
Non-marked No
Assessment Description
Final summative exam.
Reassessment Requirement
Exam Board
It is at the discretion of the Examination Board as to what the qualifying criteria are.

SETU Carlow Campus reserves the right to alter the nature and timings of assessment

 

Module Workload

Workload: Full Time
Workload Type Workload Category Contact Type Workload Description Frequency Average Weekly Learner Workload Hours
Lecture Contact No Description 12 Weeks per Stage 1.50 18
Practicals Contact No Description 12 Weeks per Stage 0.50 6
Independent Learning Non Contact No Description 15 Weeks per Stage 7.00 105
Total Weekly Contact Hours 2.00
Workload: Part Time
Workload Type Workload Category Contact Type Workload Description Frequency Average Weekly Learner Workload Hours
Independent Learning Non Contact No Description 15 Weeks per Stage 7.00 105
Lecture Contact No Description 15 Weeks per Stage 1.33 20
Practicals Contact No Description 15 Weeks per Stage 0.67 10
Total Weekly Contact Hours 2.00
 
Module Resources
Recommended Book Resources
  • White, Rebecca; Bradnam, Vicky. (2015), Handbook of Drug Administration via Enteral Feeding Tubes, 3. Pharmaceutical Press, [ISBN: 978-085711162].
Supplementary Book Resources
  • Lori A. Smolin and Mary B. Grosvenor.. (2010), Nutrition : science and applications, 2. Wiley, Chichester, [ISBN: 9780470524749].
This module does not have any article/paper resources
Other Resources
Discussion Note: