Essential Pocket Guide for Clinical Nutrition, 2nd Edition

Fees: $199.95
CPE Units: 20

This comprehensive and evidence-based course includes a concise pocket-sized reference that healthcare professionals can tailor to their practice.

The Nutrition Assessment- Diagnosis-Intervention-Monitoring and Evaluation (ADIME) format for a synopsis of all major nutritionally relevant diseases is included in each chapter. A simple nutrition diagnosis statement in the Problem-Etiology-Signs and Symptoms (PES) format is also included. The guide is compact and the disease sections are color coded for easy content searching.

Each chapter includes the latest research including blank pages for additional notes. Part 1 of the guide addresses nutrition assessment, life stage assessment and nutrition support and chapters in part 2 discuss the major nutritionally relevant diseases. The appendices are useful references on food and drug interactions, laboratory assessments and herb and dietary supplements.

Course Objectives

After completing this continuing professional education course, the learner should be able to:

1. Apply the Nutrition Care Process (NCP).
2. Identify nutrition considerations of specific diseases.
3. Integrate medical nutrition therapy (MNT) into nutrition management throughout the life cycle including pregnancy and pediatrics.
4. Define the physiologic changes in aging as well as the nutrition implications.
5. Identify methods for calculating enteral and/or parenteral formulas.
6. Implement effective MNT and healthy eating interventions for individuals following bariatric surgery.
7. Describe appropriate nutrition interventions for individuals with cancer to cope with their symptoms and treatment side effects.
8. Delineate MNT strategies for the management of cardiovascular disease, from managing hypertension to disease complications.
9. Implement the American Diabetes Association recommendations for MNT for individuals with diabetes.
10. Employ the NCP using the assessment, diagnosis, intervention, monitoring and evaluation process (ADIME) for individuals with gastrointestinal disease.
11. Determine appropriate dietary interventions for individuals with hepatobiliary disease.
12. Integrate the National Kidney Foundation Guidelines into practice for stages 1-4 chronic kidney disease.
13. Demonstrate knowledge of the importance of nutrition assessment and education for treating individuals with pulmonary disease.