This class is designed to help you reflect and integrate what you have learned from your nutrition coursework as well as that from your Gen Ed courses and other experiences that have contributed to your development on the way to your final year at UMass. The goal of this course is for students to develop insight into the epidemiologic, physiologic, biochemical and nutritional complexities of major diet-related diseases in the United States. It satisfies the Integrated Experience requirement for BS-Nutrition majors.

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An introduction to Medical Terminology and the nutrition care process as described by the American Dietetic Association. This will include the steps involved in writing a nutrition care plan.

Application of the nursing process in community-based settings. Public health theory, epidemiology, nursing theory, and select-ed social, cultural, political, economic, and environmental theories used. Concurrent with NURSING 439. Prerequisite: successful completion of all Level I and Level II requirements.

A critical examination of the current state of knowledge in the discipline. Students analyze, evaluate, and synthesize selected aspects of this knowledge.

Prepares doctoral students to systematically analyze epistemological, ontological, and metatheoretical perspectives in the philosophy of science, while also considering the implications for scientific inquiry, theory development, and knowledge development in nursing.

An opportunity to apply theory to nursing practice and to develop beginning proficiency in basic nursing and health promotion skills with the individual in the community. Concurrent with NURSING 315, 316. Prerequisite: upper division standing in major.

An opportunity to apply theory to nursing practice and to develop beginning proficiency in basic nursing and health promotion skills with the individual in the community. Concurrent with NURSING 315, 316. Prerequisite: upper division standing in major.

An opportunity to apply theory to nursing practice and to develop beginning proficiency in basic nursing and health promotion skills with the individual in the community. Concurrent with NURSING 315, 316. Prerequisite: upper division standing in major.

Students organize, interpret and document data using processes interviewing, physical exam, and clinical reasoning skills.