This Qualification covers the skills needed to work at practitioner level in nutritional medicine.
The course provides the knowledge and skills to specialise as a Nutritional Therapist / Nutritional Medicine Practitioner.
There are no pre-requisites to entry. It is beneficial for students to have compleated year 12 (or equivalent) with sound assessments in English and Chemistry.
What Will I Learn
- Nutritional Medicine
- Nutritional Therapy
- Contribute to effective workplace relationships
- Develop professional expertise
- Manage a practice
- Communicate effectively with clients
- Make referrals to other health care professionals when appropriate
- Apply fist aid
- Maintain an effective health work environment
- Manage the control of infection
- Contribute to OH&S processes
- Confirm physical health status
- Analyze health information
- Reflect and improve upon professional practice
- Apply literature research findings to clinical practice
- Apply a nutritional medicine diagnostic framework
- Manage work within a clinical nutritional framework
- Perform nutritional medicine health assessment
- Plan the the nutritional treatment strategy
- Provide nutritional medicine treatment
- Provide specialized nutritional medicine treatment
- Prepare and dispense nutritional and dietary supplements
- Provide basic dietary advice
- Apply specialized nutritional care
- Operate a western herbal medicine dispensary
- Work within a Homeopathic framework
- Provide acute Homeopathic treatment
- Work within a Massage framework
- Apply Massage assessment framework
- Perform Massage health assessment
- Plan Massage treatment
- Provide Massage treatment