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Learning Objectives
Define, understand, and characterize the impact of pediatric malnutrition.
Review the management of the critically ill pediatric patient from acute care through discharge home on nutrition support.
Relate the goals of providing nutrition support in acute care to the goals in home care.
Discuss enteral and parenteral formulation issues related to acute care and home care patients.
Identify the role of the nutrition support team, to include physician, dietitian, nurse, pharmacist, social worker and discharge planner in preventing and managing complications in long-term home enteral and parenteral nutrition patients.