Counselling Process in Nursing

Graduate

Development and refinement of counselling skills with an emphasis on human relationships and nursing strategies that facilitate health. Experiential learning will be implemented to bring a balance between counselling theory/research and applied counselling knowledge. NURS-8710 Nutrition, Lifestyle, and Chronic Disease Nutrition is the science that studies food and how the food nourishes the body and affects our health. This course will introduce the basic concepts of nutrition and present techniques and tools that can be used to encourage better eating habits in individuals. The course will introduce how nutrition can be incorporated into the clinical practice of health professionals. The topics that the course will cover include the processes of digestion, absorption and elimination as well as review basic nutrition therapy for some of the most common gastrointestinal conditions and disorders. There will be a brief overview of vitamins and minerals, discussion of key nutrition components that change throughout the life cycle and how diet plays a role in the development and treatment of chronic disease.