CPEU/CEU: 18
NOTE: Course Expiration Date: 3/31/2029. 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.
1.1.5 Integrates new knowledge and skills into practice.
1.1.6 Recognizes and exercises professional judgment within the limits of individual qualifications.
3.2.3 Delivers accurate and credible messaging.
5.1.1 Demonstrates effective problem solving and professional judgment to address needs.
5.1.2 Interprets and integrates evidence-based research and literature in decision-making.
5.2.1 Identifies potential or existing opportunities and challenges.
5.2.4 Investigates alternative explanations for deficits or challenges and considers alternative methods and provides justification for
selected option(s).
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.
7.1.2 Uses established benchmarking to inform practice.
7.2.3 Analyzes and interprets data to form valid conclusions and to make recommendations.
7.8.1 Masters and maintains current and evidence-based knowledge within subject areas.
8.4.7 Uses established benchmarking and best practices to inform practice.
9.1.1 Interprets and applies 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9.2.2 Differentiates between outdated and current evidence-based practice related to the management of diseases and clinical conditions.
9.2.3 Analyzes new information and how it impacts medical nutrition therapy.
9.2.4 Integrates new knowledge of disease states and clinical conditions into practice.
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.
9.4.1 Gains an understanding of integrative and functional medicine models and interventions and how these models and interventions are applied to nutrition and dietetics service.
9.4.2 Critically evaluates the credibility of integrative and functional medicine research and literature, using evidence-based criteria, to respond to inquiries and to determine the appropriateness of incorporating these interventions into nutrition care plans.
9.4.3 Identifies research gaps to support conscious decision-making.
9.4.4 Identifies safety issues, risks, efficacies, benefits and limitations of interventions.
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.
10.2.1 Evaluates learning needs of individuals and target groups.
10.3.1 Critically reviews and selects materials from credible sources to support the development of diet and nutrition education resources.
10.4.2 Assesses and identifies the current knowledge, skills, and cultural influences of populations.
10.6.1 Assesses client/patient nutritional needs and appropriateness of the counseling.
10.6.6 Determines client/patient expectations and aspirations and manages situations wherein these expectations cannot be met.
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.
11.2.8 Recommends biochemical tests and reviews results to support diagnoses and plans of care.
11.2.9 Orders biochemical tests and reviews results to support diagnoses and plans of care.
11.2.10 Gathers and evaluates information related to behaviors, beliefs, knowledge, and client/patient attitudes that influence nutrition and health.
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 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.
11.3.5 Establishes nutrition care plans, defining the time, frequency, and duration of interventions.
11.3.6 Develops nutrition prescriptions to communicate clients’/patients’ customized diet and nutrition needs.
11.3.9 Leads the implementation of nutrition interventions in collaboration with clients/patients and the interprofessional team.
11.4.3 Identifies potential food-nutrient drug interactions based on physiological responses to pharmacological agents and takes appropriate action.
11.4.6 Monitors responses and effects of nutrition-related drugs and takes required action to make modifications or adjustments to treatment plans.
11.5.1 Reevaluates and adjusts plans of care to support client/patient health goals.
11.5.2 Monitors and identifies factors affecting client/patient progress in meeting goals.
11.5.3 Adjusts interventions based on client/patient progress in meeting established goals.
11.5.4 Establishes new goals and nutrition care plans when original or interim goals are met.
13.2.1 Identifies determinants of health and influences on population health status.
13.2.2 Identifies and reviews evidence-based literature to create programs and to justify needs and actions.
13.3.6 Prioritizes goals and objectives based on health problems and health problem changeability.