Nutrition for Two/Design blueprint

Course Name: Nutrition for Two

This is an online course where you will have the opportunity to build on your nutrition knowledge for pregnancy and breastfeeding, and reflect on your current practice.

Course Metrics

Discipline: Nutrition

Nominal learning hours: 1-2 hours per weeks (Total 4-8 hours)

Hashtag: nutritionfortwo

Intended course audience

This course has been designed for existing and future healthcare professionals who work with pregnant women. The intended target audience for this course includes:

- Midwives and midwifery students

- General Practitioners

- Medical students

- Pharmacists and pharmacy students

- Nutritionists and nutrition students

Prerequisite knowledge

General knowledge about the physiology of pregnancy is recommended

Course aims

1. To develop an understanding of nutrition recommendations during pregnancy

2. To establish skills in nutrition communication

Outcomes

Completion of the learning activities and reflection will improve your confidence and enable you to provide basic nutrition recommendations for pregnancy, in line with the Australian Antenatal Care Clinical Practice Guidelines.

Development and delivery approach

This course comprises of four modules, each with their own learning outcomes, learning activities and opportunity for reflection. Each module also includes interactive case studies to facilitate learner-content interaction.Reflective practice is encouraged and opportunities for practitioner reflection are embedded in each module. Course participants have the opportunity to interact with other participants using the twitter hashtag nutritionfortwo,

The course presumes average computer literacy using standard office applications and web-navigation. An understanding of social media and a Twitter account is recommended for peer interaction, but is not required to complete the course.

Interaction Strategies

Student-content interactions

- Each module will include a short video of a model nutrition discussion between a midwife and a client for stimulus, in addition to written information with links to external sources for learners who wish to learn about a topic in further depth or detail.

Student-student interactions

- Students are encouraged to post their reponses to activities and reflection opportunites using the comments box

- Students are also encourage to post to Twitter during the course using the hashtag: nutritionfortwo

- Groups of participants are also invited to establish their own local working groups to complete the source in a face-to-face learning community

Student-support interactions

- Students will be encouraged to use a peer-support question and answer forum for addressing support questions