Nutrition Care.pdf

Fellows must perform comprehensive nutritional assessments and provide counseling for patients with nutritional issues, deficiencies, and obesity, working with registered dieticians to counsel families on nutritional interventions and tracking progress. They must provide longitudinal care for patients with complex nutrition issues, including those receiving nutritional support, and offer nutritional consultation in various settings. The activity involves performing nutritional assessments, calculating recommended daily intake, demonstrating application of nutritional aspects of chronic diseases, managing patients with diseases requiring nutritional therapy, educating parents and children, and leading care in conjunction with other healthcare professionals. Required competencies include patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning, interpersonal communication, professionalism, system-based practice, and personal and professional development. Specific knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed include understanding of comprehensive nutritional assessment, pathophysiology of gastrointestinal diseases, and socioeconomic and cultural issues influencing nutritional choices.