Lifestage Nutrition

By using Lifestage Nutrition, the staff team will learn to identify and understand the proper nutritional needs of the client's pet.   The staff team will learn: Body condition scoring and be able to calculate the energy requirements of pets at different life stages; Understand the importance of nutritional balance (the consequences of both overnutrition and undernutrition); Understand the nutritional requirements of the different lifestages of pets, including the growing, reproducing, lactating, performance and geriatric stages; Be able to answer common client questions about pet nutrition, including feeding methods, feeding costs, nutrient percentages in canned and dry foods, interpreting pet food labels and the palatability of pet food.   The team may complete the built-in self-assessment test and send the results to Lifelearn to collect 1 hour of continuing education (CE) credits and a Certificate of Completion.   Lifelearn's practice licence allows all team members to use the program and collect CE (Continuing Education).

Comments & References: Suitable for veterinary paraprofessionals including receptionists, veterinary assistants and veterinary technicians. Part of the Nutrition series. Please see record number 5157 for another product in this series. Please also see record numbers 4994, 5158, 5164 and 5773 for other products in the Veterinary Staff Training Series (Team Training) from Lifelearn. System requirements: Pentium 133 MHz computer or higher, 16 Mb of RAM recommended; Monitor: 640 x 480 with 64k colours (video card with at least 1 Mb RAM); 8 bit sound card ans speakers; CD-ROM drive (8x or higher recommended); Microsoft Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 or higher.

Item: 1-896985-08-4

Version: 2003

Price: US$69.00