IUPUI Campus Bulletin 2012-2014

Academic Programs

Student Learning Outcomes

MCH Leadership in Education Excellence in Pediatric Nutrition Certificate

At the end of the MCH certificate program, students will be able to provide advanced level, specialty nutritional care for infants, children, and adolescents including those with special health needs.

All the students who successfully complete the program will demonstrate the use of the following competencies and learning outcomes.

1. Apply normative and authoritative guidelines to the evaluation of the nutrition and feeding of infants, children, and adolescents including those with special health needs.
2. Assess/evaluate growth and nutrient intakes (parenteral and enteral) relative to age and medical condition of infants, children and adolescents including those with special health needs using appropriate normative data.
3. Create appropriate nutrition care plans for infants, children, and adolescents including those with special health needs.
4. Create appropriate roles for the dietitian caring for infants, children, and adolescents, including those with special health needs.
5. Create appropriate strategies for improving health/nutrition care services and systems, using the five practices of exemplary leadership (Kouzes and Posner 2003).