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This course provides an overview of the science of nutrition and its influences on growth, development, and health maintenance. The relationship between illness and nutritional interventions will also be described and discussed. The student will be expected to recognize how nutrition influences a patient’s overall health and apply this information towards the comprehensive care of all patients across the lifespan.

This course provides the student with knowledge of the basic mechanisms involved in pathophysiological processes. Common health care problems, as identified by USA morbidity and mortality statistics and the Healthy People initiative, are discussed as prototypes of disease processes. Fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base imbalances are discussed in relation to a variety of pathophysiological states. The effects of age and associated differences in adaptive capacity as related to disease processes are discussed.