CPEU/CEU: 8
NOTE: Course Expiration Date: 11/5/2028. You have until that date to complete your CPEU Evaluation or Webinar Feedback Survey for this course.

1.1.1 Participates and documents engagement in professional development activities to maintain and enhance competence.
1.1.2 Pursues and embraces opportunities to advance practice.
1.1.3 Keeps abreast of changes in practice and in the practice environment that affect individual competence and legislative scope of practice.
1.1.5 Integrates new knowledge and skills into practice.
1.1.8 Collaborates with others, seeks counsel and makes referrals as needed.
1.5.1 Builds rapport and trust within relationships while respecting professional boundaries.
1.5.3 Demonstrates sensitivity to power imbalance.
1.7.3 Develops awareness of one’s own personal beliefs and values to inform and reduce biases.
3.1.1 Assesses the communication needs of individuals, groups and populations to provide effective communication.
3.1.2 Identifies and addresses barriers to effective communication.
3.1.3 Tailors messages and communication methods to meet the needs of target audiences.
3.1.5 Evaluates the effectiveness of communication methods used to ensure understanding of presented information.
3.2.2 Delivers information in a respectful and professional manner.
3.2.3 Delivers accurate and credible messaging.
3.3.2 Considers and respects the opinions, creativity, values, beliefs and perspectives of others.
3.3.4 Collaborates with others when knowledge, skill or experience are beyond their competence level.
4.1.1 Identifies strengths and opportunities in self and in others.
5.1.1 Demonstrates effective problem identification and solving as well as professional judgment to address needs.
5.1.2 Interprets and integrates evidence-based research and literature in decision making.
5.1.3 Identifies misinformation and inaccurate information to inform decision making.
5.1.6 Recognizes situations where nutrition and dietetics services should be adjusted, limited, modified or discontinued.
5.2.1 Identifies potential or existing opportunities and challenges.
5.2.2 Understands impact of own values, beliefs and professional and personal biases on decision making.
5.2.3 Demonstrates insight concerning personal expertise and limitations.
5.2.5 Analyzes and synthesizes information and identifies new information, patterns and findings.
5.2.6 Integrates relevant information with previous learning, experience, professional knowledge, and current practice models.
5.2.7 Identifies and implements a plan to address opportunities and challenges.
5.2.8 Evaluates the effectiveness of plans and decisions and makes adjustments when needed.
7.1.2 Uses established guidelines to inform practice.
7.8.1 Masters and maintains current and evidence-based knowledge within subject areas.
8.4.7 Uses accepted benchmarking and best practices to inform practice.
9.1.1 Interprets and applies the appropriate evidence-based literature and standards for determining nutritional needs of target audiences.
9.1.2 Integrates knowledge of biological, physical, and social sciences with knowledge of food and nutrition to make decisions related to nutrition care.
9.1.4 Integrates knowledge of macro- and micronutrients for digestion, absorption and metabolism throughout the lifespan in practice.
9.1.5 Demonstrates knowledge of nutrient requirements throughout the lifespan, and their role in health promotion and disease prevention.
9.2.1 Engages in educational activities to maintain knowledge and to obtain new knowledge of diseases and clinical conditions.
9.2.2 Keeps abreast of and incorporates current evidence-based practice related to the management of diseases and clinical conditions.
9.2.3 Seeks and analyzes new scientific information and how it impacts medical nutrition therapy.
9.2.4 Integrates new knowledge of disease states and clinical conditions into practice.
9.3.1 Discusses with clients and provides guidance on the Physical Activity (PA) Guidelines for Americans and the relationships between exercise, health, and disease prevention.
9.3.4 Assesses clients’ emotions toward nutrition-related statements or phenomenon, body image/preoccupation with food and weight, and readiness to change nutrition-related behaviors.
9.3.6 Demonstrates an understanding of the ways in which progressive exercise training influences nutrition needs to support positive metabolic, structural, and immunological adaptations.
9.3.10 Refers clients to qualified professionals based on needs when skill is beyond competence and scope of practice.
9.4.3 Critically evaluates the safety and efficacy of traditional and pharmaceutical models as it applies to nutrition and dietetics.
9.5.1 Plans and designs nutritionally sound meals, menus and meal plans that promote health and disease management and meet client
needs.
10.1.3 Identifies and analyzes factors that influence change in behaviors.
10.1.4 Evaluates factors that influence the learning process and skill building
10.2.1 Evaluates learning needs of individuals and target groups.
10.2.4 Collaborates with learners and colleagues to formulate specific, measurable and attainable objectives and goals.
10.3.1 Critically reviews and selects materials from credible sources to support the development of diet and nutrition education resources.
10.4.3 Assesses and identifies the current knowledge, skills, and cultural influences of populations.
10.4.5 Selects and uses appropriate content and teaching methods to meet individual and group needs.
10.4.6 Implements individualized teaching plans to promote, maintain and enhance nutritional health and learning.
10.5.2 Obtains feedback on teaching style and content delivery methods used.
10.6.1 Assesses client/patient nutritional needs and appropriateness of the counseling.
10.6.2 Applies a variety of counseling theories, psychological methods and strategies that empower clients/patients to make changes.
10.6.3 Applies counseling principles and evidence-based practice when providing individual or group education.
10.6.4 Identifies indications, contraindications, benefits, risks and limitations of counseling or behavior change therapy.
10.6.5 Demonstrates an understanding of transference and countertransference in therapeutic relationships.
10.6.6 Determines client/patient expectations and aspirations and manages situations wherein these expectations cannot be met.
10.6.7 Assesses client/patient readiness to change when applying specific counseling strategies.
10.6.8 Develops counseling or coaching goals in collaboration with clients.
10.6.9 Assists with resolution of barriers to achieving goals of counseling and coaching.
10.6.10 Evaluates the effectiveness of counseling or therapy and makes modifications as required.
10.6.11 Refers client/patient to appropriate professionals when counseling, therapy or mental health status is beyond competence and legislative scope of practice.
11.1.3 Analyzes nutrition screening results to determine risk for malnutrition and/or other nutrition-related problem(s).
11.1.4 Determines appropriate service and referral needs based on screening data.
11.2.1 Selects valid and reliable tools to conduct comprehensive nutrition assessments.
11.2.2 Interviews clients/patients and reviews health records to collect information about medical history and food and nutrition intake.
11.2.3 Collects information related to client/patient use of medications, dietary supplements and integrative and functional medicines to identify potential adverse drug and nutrient interaction.
11.2.4 Assesses client/patient physical activity levels to determine nutrition requirements.
11.2.5 Conducts nutrition-focused physical examinations and analyzes findings to determine nutritional status.
11.2.6 Collects and analyzes anthropometric and body composition data to contribute to nutrition diagnoses.
11.2.7 Performs calculations to determine nutritional requirements by identifying and utilizing patient-appropriate predictive equations.
11.2.9 Gathers and evaluates information that affects intake and nutrition and health status (e.g., behaviors, beliefs, knowledge, cultural, religious, ethnic, psychosocial, and social determinants of health) that influence nutrition and health.
11.2.12 Analyzes and synthesizes assessment data and findings to provide evidence of nutrition diagnoses.
11.2.15 Evaluate changes in measurable assessment data to communicate progress and/or resolution of nutrition diagnoses.
11.2.16 Compare and evaluate nutrition assessment data against appropriate standards and norms based on the client population, setting, and goals for care.
11.3.1 Establishes goals and desired outcomes in collaboration with clients/patients.
11.3.2 Determines factors impacting client/patient progress in meeting goals and resolving nutrition diagnoses; adjusts nutrition care plans accordingly.
11.3.3 Prioritizes specific nutrition problems to inform nutrition care plans and processes.
11.3.4 Selects interventions intended to resolve or improve nutrition diagnoses through addressing the causes and/or contributing factors.
11.3.5 Establishes and implements nutrition care plans, defining the time, frequency, and duration of interventions.
11.3.6 Develops nutrition prescriptions to communicate clients’/patients’ customized diet, considering client values and nutrition needs.
11.3.9 Leads the implementation of nutrition interventions in collaboration with clients/patients and the interprofessional team.
11.4.1 Identifies nutrition-related pharmacological agents and their actions on the body.
11.4.2 Demonstrates an understanding of pharmacokinetics, absorption, clearance, metabolism, latency periods, accumulation, half-life, and routes of drug administration.
11.4.3 Identifies potential food-nutrient drug interactions based on physiological responses to pharmacological agents and takes appropriate action.
11.4.4 Considers client/patient factors, nutritional impacts, indications, side effects, contraindications, benefits, risks, alternatives and foundational sciences when prescribing, recommending or administering nutrition-related drug therapy.
11.4.6 Monitors responses and effects of nutrition-related drugs and takes required action to make modifications or adjustments to treatment plans.
11.4.7 Evaluates, educates and counsels on the interrelationship and impact of pharmacotherapy on nutrients.
11.5.1 Reevaluates and adjusts plans of care to support client/patient health goals.
11.5.2 Monitors and communicates factors and barriers affecting client/patient progress in meeting goals.
11.5.3 Adjusts interventions based on client/patient progress in meeting established goals and resolving nutrition diagnoses.
11.5.4 Establishes new goals and nutrition care plans when original or interim goals are met.