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Future Roles in Nursing: The Benefits of Nutrition Education for Disease Prevention
I am interested in a future role in nursing that educates people to live a healthy and active lifestyle and monitors their progress through wellness checks to increase the opportunity to prevent diseases. Unhealthy lifestyles have a link to the risks of developing diseases. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported in 2014 that seven of the top ten leading causes of death in the United States were the result of chronic diseases and were preventable through nutritive diets, exercise, and other types of healthy lifestyle choices (CDC, 2014). I recently earned a Bachelor of Science in Human Environmental Science (Food and Nutrition) and will complete my Bachelor of Science in Nursing next summer. This combination of nutrition and medical knowledge will allow me to better serve and educate my community in disease prevention through a holistic approach to health and wellness and preventative medicine. …show more content…

A group of authors prepared a report examining the lack of nutrition in the educational programs for doctors, nurses, and dentists (DiMaria-Ghalili et al., 2012). The authors noted that although “[n]utrition is an integral component of nursing care,” there had not been a review of the nutrition component of nursing programs in 25 years (DiMaria-Ghalili et al., 2012, p. 25). A survey of nurses found that there were several barriers to nutrition education in the nursing field, such as it being viewed as a less important issue, lower interest in the topic among nurses, and lack of understanding of how to give nutrition advice (DiMaria-Ghalili et al., 2012). These findings demonstrate an increased need for nurses experienced in the field of nutrition, which makes me even more interested in this future role in

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