NS 4250

Nutrition Communications and Counseling

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.

Students learn the theoretical basis of effective health promotion communications and develop effective nutrition communication skills through application in a variety of settings. Provides hands-on experiences in counseling, educational program development, and oral and written communications.

When Offered Spring.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: senior and junior students. Enrollment preference given to: senior Dietetics (DPD) students and Nutritional Sciences majors.
Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: NS 1150 or NS 1220 and NS 2450.

Course Attribute (CU-CEL)

• Develop and articulate original nutrition education material through written, oral, and social media outlets for diverse audiences. KRDN 2.1 Demonstrate effective and professional oral and written communication and documentation
• Evaluate the scientific evidence behind food messages, popular diets, and common nutrition misconceptions. KRDN 1.1: Demonstrate how to locate, interpret, evaluate and use professional literature to make ethical, evidence-based practice decisions.
• Discover intrinsic motivations with relation to both food choices and career choice. KRDN 3.3: Demonstrate counseling and education methods to facilitate behavior change for and enhance wellness for diverse individuals and groups
• Apply principals from formal theories to successfully counsel a client to achieve a behavior change. KRDN 3.3: Demonstrate counseling and education methods to facilitate behavior change for and enhance wellness for diverse individuals and groups.
• Conduct a comprehensive nutrition assessment including diet analysis, nutrition counseling, goal setting, and evaluation with an individual. KRDN 3.1 Use the Nutrition Care Process and clinical workflow elements to assess nutritional parameters, diagnose nutrition related problems, determine appropriate nutrition interventions and develop plans to monitor the effectiveness of these interventions.
• Plan, execute, and evaluate a nutrition lesson plan for a specific audience. KRDN 3.2: Develop an educational session or program/educational strategy for a target population.
• Differentiate between optimal and disordered eating and the commensurate counseling strategies.
• Understand current coding and billing practices within the insurance and medical systems. KRDN 4.3: Describe the regulation system related to billing and coding, what services are reimbursable by third party payers, and how reimbursement may be obtained.

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