Dietary Manager Training: The Food Guide Pyramid
By Kristy Norenberg
Learners read about the U.S. Department of Agriculture's guide for daily food choices. They then recreate the Food Guide Pyramid.
Dietary Manager Training: Preventing Backflow of Contaminated Water into Potable Water
In this animated learning object, students read about the backflow of contaminated water and how to prevent it.
Dietary Manager Training: Menu Planning
Learners read how they can make menus more pleasing to the senses by paying attention to shape, form, texture, temperature, color, flavor, and visual appeal.
Dietary Manager Training: Lipid Digestion and Absorption
In this animated learning object, learners view how the fats that people eat are digested and absorbed.
Dietary Manager Training: Hydration, Dehydration, and Elderly Clients
Learners read about the role of water, the basic physiology of water balance, and the effects of dehydration particularly on elderly clients. Tips for maintaining proper hydration are presented. In an interactive exercise, students calculate how much fluid a client needs based on his/her age, health, and weight.
Dietary Manager Training: Garnishing
Students read about fresh herb garnishes and match the garnishes to appropriate foods.
Dietary Manager Training: Evaluating Test Trays
Students read how to record relevant information on a test tray evaluation form. They enter their own analysis of the data in a practice exercise.
Dietary Manager Training: Documenting the Nutrition Care Process
Learners read about the S.O.A.P. and D.A.R. formats that are used to document progress notes in medical records. They then match statements to S.O.A.P. and D.A.R. categories in drag-and-drop exercises.
Dietary Manager Training: Digestion and Absorption of Protein
Learners follow the path of a protein food from consumption through digestion to absorption into the bloodstream.
Dietary Manager Training: Digestion and Absorption of Carbohydrates (Screencast)
Learners follow the path of a carbohydrate food from consumption through digestion to absorption into the bloodstream. In a matching exercise, students identify the main type of carbohydrate found in four different foods.
Dietary Manager Training: Diabetes
By Marian Benz
Students read about the different types of diabetes and the treatment methods available.
Dietary Manager Training: Cooling Foods Using an Ice Water Bath
In this animated learning object, learners read about the proper handling of foods that contain the nutrients and water that bacteria require for growth.
Dietary Manager Training: Cooling Foods by Reducing the Quantity or Size of the Food
In this animated lesson, students read how reducing the thickness of a food is an important factor in cooling it. They also read FDA guidelines for food temperatures.
Dietary Manager Training: Classifying Foods According to Nutrient Density
Students read about foods that are high in nutrients compared to the number of calories. They identify if certain foods have high or low nutrient density.
Dietary Manager Training: Calculating FTEs
Learners read how to calculate the full-time equivalent for hours worked by employees. Practice exercises complete the activity.
Dietary Manager Training: Beef Cooking Methods
Learners read about various cuts of beef and the methods of preparing them: roasting, baking, broiling, pan broiling, braising, stewing, and marinating. In a drag-and-drop exercise, students match the cut of beef to the appropriate cooking method.
Diagnostic Tests Related to Gastrointestinal Health Alterations
By Fran Soukup
In this drag-and-drop exercise, learners review the names of diagnostic tests and match them with their descriptions and the nursing actions that relate to them.
Dental Hygiene: A Case Study for "Tom"
By Sandra Kohlmann
Learners assess the periodontal status and the health risk factors of a fictitious patient. They also make treatment recommendations in this interactive lesson.
CSI Coding Scene Investigation
By Amy Janssen
Learners test their knowledge in this drag-and-drop exercise by identifying coding errors in health care claim cases.
Cranial Nerves
By Carrie Thompson
In this highly interactive and animated object, learners complete three exercises to identify the cranial nerves and their functions.
Correcting Common Problems of Parenteral Nutrition
In this interactive object, learners match physiological, mechanical, or other parenteral nutrition complications with the appropriate nursing care.
Construction of the Cell Membrane (Video)
By Becky Polk-Pohlman
In this video you'll study the structure of the cell membrane and construct it using the correct molecules.
Construction of the Cell Membrane
By Becky Polk-Pohlman, Barbara Liang
In this learning activity you'll study the structure of the cell membrane and construct it using the correct molecules.
Components of Dental Microbial Plaque
Learners examine the contents of organized microbial plaque and test their knowledge in matching exercises.
Components of a Prokaryote (Screencast)
By Kristine Snow
In this learning activity you'll assemble the components of a prokaryotic cell and match the names and functions with each structure.