BIOL 2050 The Science of Nutrition, 2 cr.
Term Taken: Summer 2023
Instructor: Audra Post
PREREQUISITES: Completion of Phase One classes or currently a CPM/RM
This course will educate students to recognize the relation between health and nutrition and promote measures to reduce morbidity and mortality derived from chronic illness linked to nutritional inadequacy. They will be able to identify nutritional deficiencies and teach ways to overcome those deficiencies through a proper diet in accordance with the needs, means, and personal and cultural preferences of the client. They will understand the benefits and risks of supplements during pregnancy and will learn to recommend the appropriate use of vitamin and mineral supplements through childbearing the years. This course also addresses the nutrition of the baby during the first year of life.
Learning Objectives: 1. Explain biochemistry as it relates to midwifery nutrition
2. Construct Nutrient Profile Resource
3. Describe nutrition as a life-course tool relating parental nutrition to personal & infant health.
4. Determine overlaps between symptoms/conditions and nutrient excess/deficiency.
5. Design client-centered nutritional resource.
6. Evaluate multi-system influences on client nutritional access.
7. Customize client-centered nutritional recommendations in context to Socioecological Model of care.
8. Enhance nutritional health through wrap-around services.
(Copied from the 2023-24 course catalog: https://www.midwifery.edu/course-catalog/)