Clinical Nutrition
Excel CPD - Vet Nurse CPD
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Date: Monday 21st April, 2025 - Friday 16th May, 2025
Start time: 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Duration: 10 hour(s)
Cost: £205
Week 1: Nutritional Assessment and Calculations
How to perform a nutritional assessment
Calculate energy requirements and how much to feed
Treatment regimens for inappetence Instigating nutritional support
Learning objectives
Perform a nutritional history and assessment of the animal
Calculate BER and RERs and apply this to how much to feed
Identify when nutritional support is required and how to do this
Week 2: Clinical Nutrition – Renal, Urinary, Liver and Cardiac
Clinical nutrition for renal, urinary, liver and cardiac disease
Look at each of the nutrient requirements for each of these management regimes
Learning objectives
Make recommendations for clinical diets for renal, urinary, liver and cardiac disease Understand the nutrient specifications for these diets
Discuss the benefits of these diets
Week 3: Clinical Nutrition – Gastrointestinal and Pancreatic
Clinical nutrition for gastrointestinal and pancreatitis
Look at each of the nutrient requirements for each of these management regimes
Learning objectives
Make recommendations for clinical diets for range of gastrointestinal and pancreatitis
Understand the nutrient specifications for these diets
Discuss the benefits of these diets
Week 4: Nutritional Supplements and Trends
Supplements
Nutritional trends (including raw and homecooked diets)
Learning objectives
Make recommendations for supplements for the diseases discussed in weeks 3 and 4
Look at the nutritional evidence behind nutritional fashions
Discuss raw and home cooked feeding with clients
Tutor: Nicola Lakeman
Date: 21st April - 16th May 2025
Cost: £205 +vat
Length: 4 weeks
CPD: 10 hours
Level: Intermediate
Who is it for?
Veterinary Nurses
Number of CPD hours this event can be recorded as
10 hours
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