Title: Module 6: Introduction
Course: NUR 1008C Transition to Prof Nursing > Section: Module 6

The body requires fuel to provide energy for cellular metabolism and repair, organ function, growth, and body movement. Regular elimination of bowel waste products is essential for normal body functioning and normal elimination of urinary wastes is a basic  function most take for granted.

Objectives

Upon completion of this module, the student will be able to:
- Describe the food guide pyramid.
- Describe basic nutritional requirements, therapeutic diets and clinical signs of altered nutrition.
- Identify nursing interventions that promote normal elimination.
- Discuss alternative methods of nutritional supplementation, such as enteral nutrition and parenteral nutrition.
- Plan appropriate nursing interventions for the administration of tube feedings, both bolus and continuous, via gastrointestinal tubes, including nasogastric tube and gastrostomy tube.
- Describe nursing interventions for the administration of medications via nasogastric tube and gastrostomy tube.

Readings

- Text A Silvestri - Chapter 12, 13, 21
- Text B Potter & Perry - Chapter 44,45, 46