BSVD021p Nutrition and dietetics - lecture

Faculty of Medicine
spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Zlata Kapounová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Martin Krobot (lecturer)
Mgr. Barbora Slanařová (lecturer)
Mgr. Veronika Suchodolová (lecturer)
Mgr. Veronika Volavá (lecturer)
Mgr. Veronika Zelenková (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
RNDr. Ondřej Zvěřina, Ph.D.
Department of Public Health – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Mgr. Martin Krobot
Supplier department: Department of Internal Gastroenterology – Joint workplaces with the University Hospital Brno - workplaces of the Bohunice and Mater. Hospital – Faculty of Medicine
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to prepare nurses for the performance of activities related to nutritional care, especially for all activities that enable effective collaboration with a dietitian and/or medical doctor nutritionist.
Learning outcomes
After the course, the student: - is aware of his/her own role in a multidisciplinary team providing nutritional care - understands the importance of prevention and treatment of malnutrition in patients - takes into account the individual nutritional needs and preferences of the patient - is able to communicate about nutrition with both the patient and other members of the multidisciplinary team - is familiar with the dietary system and the most common dietary practices - is familiar with the basic principles of enteral and parenteral nutrition - can perform nutritional screening - is able to carry out dietary monitoring and keep nutrition records in the medical record
Syllabus
  • Nutrition basics: B+S+T, importance, food groups, water

  • Nutritional care in health care: methodological recommendations for the provision of food and nutritional care, nutrition team, dietary system, specification and use of diets

  • Role of the nurse in nutritional care: intake monitoring, intervention, communication

  • Malnutrition: implications, assessment, screening, GLIM criteria

  • ONS, enteral and parenteral nutrition: types, administration, monitoring, myths

  • Specific nutritional care: obesity, diabetes, elimination, elderly, wound healing, oncology, gastroenterology

  • Nutritional needs influenced by worldview: issues of religion, veganism, etc.

  • Multidisciplinary collaboration: hands-on training with dietetics students

Literature
    required literature
  • TĚŠÍNSKÝ, Pavel, František NOVÁK, Ivana PRAŽANOVÁ, Lucie RŮŽIČKOVÁ, Martina KARBANOVÁ, Martin KROBOT and Peter SZITÁNYI. Metodické doporučení pro zajištění stravy a nutriční péče (Guidelines for hospital nutrition and nutrition care). 2020. Věstník MZ ČR č. 10/2020 info
    recommended literature
  • Výživa v medicíně a dietetika, Heinrich Kasper, Grada 2015
Teaching methods
lecture, active involvement of students in group activities, practical training
Assessment methods
Oral examination consisting of an analysis of a case study from the perspective of a nurse
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 20.
The course is also listed under the following terms spring 2022, spring 2023, spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (spring 2025, recent)
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