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Nutrition Education in Primary Care Adult and Family Nurse Practitioner Programs
Ariana M Chao1, Yingjie Zhou, Xueting Wei
1Author Affiliations: Assistant Professor (Dr Chao), Clinical Research Coordinator (Mr Zhou), Students (Ms Wei and Ms Wisdom-Goulbourne), Senior Lecturer (Ms Dowd), and Professor (Dr Compher), Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing; and Assistant Professor (Dr Chao), Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Background:
Educating and training clinicians to deliver nutrition interventions is critical to improve population health. However, the adequacy of nutrition education within primary care adult and family nurse practitioner (ANP/FNP) curricula has not been addressed.
Purpose:
The purpose of this study was to describe faculty perceptions of nutrition education in ANP/FNP programs.
Methods:
We used a cross-sectional design to gather data on nutrition education. The survey was administered to a convenience sample of faculty from the United States.
Results:
Our response rate was 47.8% (N = 49). The mean ± SD hours of nutrition education was 14.4 ± 14.6. One-fourth of schools reported that their students received at least 25 hours of nutrition education. Most participants thought it was very or extremely important (75.6%) that their students become more educated about nutrition.
Conclusions:
There is a need and desire for more nutrition education within nursing graduate curricula. Novel strategies to implement nutrition education in nurse practitioner curriculum are needed.
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