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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Personal Trainer's Toolkit: Providing Nutritional Advice to Your Clients
This online Short Course described the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to identify when the provision of nutritional advice is beyond the scope of practice of a personal trainer. It required the ability to recognise the dangers of providing nutrition advice in a fitness setting and when a client requires referral to an Accredited Practicing Dietitian, Accredited Sports Dietitian or General Practitioner.
2 weeks, 5 hours per week
Sonya Barber
Teacher, Fitness, Sport and Recreation.
Central Queensland University
Ashlee Battersby
Teacher, Fitness, Sport and Recreation.
Central Queensland University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain your scope of practice in providing nutritional advice to clients.
- Identify referral pathways to accredited professionals for nutritional advice for clients.
- Identify appropriate sources for nutritional advice to provide to clients.
Syllabus
- Nutritional Guidelines
- Referral Awareness
- Client Risks When Providing Advice
- Referral and professional boundaries
- Scope of Practice and Nutritional Scope of Practice
- Chronic illness and other conditions
- Mental illness and nutrition
- Sport specific and high performance sport
Issued on 17th March 2022
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