Principles and Practice of Dietetics
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| BIOS3046 | Biosciences | 3 | 60 | Full Year UK |
- Code
- BIOS3046
- School
- Biosciences
- Level
- 3
- Credits
- 60
- Semesters
- Full Year UK
Summary
The module will be split into seven streams of content which have been brought together into a single module to facilitate learning and reflective development of the students as dietetic practitioners.
The seven streams are:
- Dietetic process, clinical reasoning and decision making (including ethics)
- Nutrition support and texture modification
- Structure and delivery of dietetic services
- Delivery and communicating of dietetic interventions
- Acute dietetic specialities (most of external dietetic lectures)
- Long-term conditions (including acute episodes of care)
- Issues through the life-course (including paediatrics, pregnancy, and aging)
Target Students
Only available for Master of Nutrition & Dieteticstudents
Classes
- Four 3-hour tutorials each week for 24 weeks
- One 8-hour practicum each week for 4 weeks
- Two 8-hour lectures each week for 12 weeks
- Four 3-hour lectures each week for 12 weeks
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment
- 15% Coursework 1: 2000 word family case study
- 15% Coursework 2: Presentation and reflection
- 15% Coursework 3: Patient information leaflet production
- 25% Coursework 4: 2000 word nutrition support case study
- 30% Exam 1 (2-hour): Spring examination - with reading time
Assessed by end of spring semester
Educational Aims
This module aims to link the underpinning science of nutrition developed over the first two years of the programme to the applied practice of dietetics. This will consider both the professional aspects of dietetics alongside the theory of the nutritional management of disease in individuals and populations. This should effectively enable students to be prepared to start their 12 week clinical placement (B placement).Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students will be able to:
- Critically analyse the role of the dietitian across a range of healthcare settings, including roles in public health.
- Analyse how dietitians’ interface with other health professionals and organisations as part of a multidisciplinary healthcare team, including others who promote nutrition within healthcare and community settings.
- Identify key clinical, biochemical, nutrition and psychosocial information as part of the identification of nutritional needs of individuals and groups in a variety of settings and situations.
- Calculate estimated nutritional requirements and critically consider the validity of applying recommendations for population nutrition reference values in clinical settings.
- Apply appropriate nutritional diagnoses to clinical scenarios based on a comprehensive dietetic assessment.
- In cases presenting with multiple comorbidities and disease risks appropriate nutritional diagnoses based on a comprehensive dietetic assessment
- Design dietetics care plans appropriate for individuals and groups who may be presenting with multiple comorbidities and disease risks using the nutrition and dietetic care process.
- Deliver a nutritional education session designed to meet the health and psychosocial needs of a specified service user group.
- Evaluate possible clinical outcomes and the role of monitoring and evaluating in refining and justifying dietetic practice including the possible implication of dietetic interventions on aspects of wider aspects of health.
- Identify the ethical, regulatory, professional, and legal issues linked to nutritional interventions and dietetic practice.
- Develop and reflect upon a patient centred approach, including and maintaining professional standards and NHS values when responding to clinical case situations.
Conveners
Last updated 07/01/2025.