CPEU/CEU: 27
NOTE: Course Expiration Date: 8/27/2028. 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.
1.4.1 Communicates risks, benefits, disadvantages, alternatives to, and costs of proposed treatment plans, contracts or scope of work.
1.4.2 Confirms client’s and/or substitute decision-maker’s goals for care and understanding of nutrition findings and interventions before proceeding with services or nutrition care plans.
1.5.1 Builds rapport and trust within relationships while respecting professional boundaries.
1.7.3 Develops awareness of one’s own personal beliefs and values to inform and reduce biases.
3.2.3 Delivers accurate and credible messaging.
4.1.3 Demonstrates ability to proactively develop and manage change.
4.1.6 Takes an active role in sharing information and knowledge.
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.
5.2.5 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.
7.1.1 Identifies gaps in evidence to determine research priorities.
7.1.2 Uses established guidelines to inform practice.
7.2.3 Analyzes and interprets data to form valid conclusions and to make recommendations.
7.2.4 Identifies research gaps to support conscious decision making.
7.8.1 Masters and maintains current and evidence-based knowledge within subject areas.
7.8.4 Applies various theories and approaches to learning and education.
8.4.3 Formulates a clear understanding of the nature of problems or the need for improvement to achieve desired outcomes.
8.4.6 Analyzes data to identify trends and improvements and to determine care effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of nutrition-related care, or to support the delivery of health, food, and nutrition services.
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.
9.5.4 Takes into consideration client/patient choices, beliefs, food sensitivities, allergies, and accessibility and affordability of food.
10.1.3 Identifies and analyzes factors that influence change in behaviors.
10.2.4 Collaborates with learners and colleagues to formulate specific, measurable, and attainable objectives and goals.
10.6.1 Assesses client/patient nutritional needs and appropriateness of the counseling.
10.6.4 Identifies indications, contraindications, benefits, risks, and limitations of counseling or behavior change therapy.
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.
10.6.11 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).
11.2.2 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.
11.2.14 Effectively documents and communicates nutrition assessment evidence and nutrition diagnoses.
11.2.15 Evaluate changes in measurable assessment data to communicate progress and/or resolution of nutrition diagnoses.
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.
11.4.5 Implements, initiates, or modifies nutrition-related pharmacotherapy orders that address client/patient needs.
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.
13.2.1 Identifies social determinants of health and influences on population health status.
13.4.2 Applies knowledge of local and global food markets, food production systems, and nutrition regulations.