Webinar Plus: Advanced nutrition for nurses

Key Information

CPD Hours: 12 hours

Course Length: Four weeks

Course Format: A mixture of weekly webinars (which can be viewed live and/or as recorded versions throughout the course), quizzes to help reinforce topics discussed, supplementary reading material and tutor-moderated online discussion forums

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Overall an excellent course with relevant information with good tutor support.

Course Information

Key Areas
  • Understanding how diets can help animals with various problems - update on nutritional therapies
  • Nutritional support for hospitalised patients - what can we do better?
  • Getting the most out of weight loss clinics
  • The Raw Deal – raw foods, commercial foods and home-made diets
About this course

Do you want to improve the care you can give your patients through providing optimal nutritional advice to your clients? 

Clients frequently ask for advice regarding what to feed their pet, particularly when they develop an illness. With so many different veterinary prescription diets available and so much information on the internet about pet food, it is extremely challenging to differentiate helpful strategies from unsubstantiated claims. In addition, our understanding about the nutritional requirements of companion animals continues to evolve.

Why do this course? 
Nurses are closely involved with all aspects of pet nutrition in small animal practice ranging from providing nutritional advice to clients, running weight loss clinics and providing nutritional support to hospitalised patients. There are a plethora of products, information and claims made about various diets that can be confusing to navigate and understand. This online course will increase your knowledge and confidence about a range of nutritional topics.

The webinars will run on the following dates from 1:00pm to 2:00pm (London time):

Webinar dates:
Tuesday 16th January 
Tuesday 23rd January 
Tuesday 30th January
Tuesday 6th February

Tutors

Dan Chan, DVM DipACVECC DipECVECC DipACVN FHEA MRCVS
Professor of Emergency Critical Care Medicine and Clinical Nutrition
The Royal Veterinary College

Aarti Kathrani, BVetMed PhD DipACVIM (SAIM) DipACVIM (Nutrition) FHEA MRCVS
Senior Lecturer in Small Animal Internal Medicine
The Royal Veterinary College