CPEU/CEU: 35
NOTE: Course Expiration Date: 12/09/2027. You have until that date to complete your CPEU Evaluation or Webinar Feedback Survey for this course.

1.1.1Participates 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.
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.
3.2.2 Delivers information and opinions in a respectful and professional manner.
3.2.3 Delivers accurate and credible messaging.
4.1.6 Takes an active role in sharing information and knowledge.
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.
5.1.3 Identifies misinformation and inaccurate information in order to inform 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.
5.2.7 Identifies and implements a plan to address opportunities and challenges.
7.1.2 Uses established benchmarking to inform practice.
7.2.3 Analyzes and interprets data to form valid conclusions and to make recommendations.
7.3.1 Accurately and ethically shares research findings with a variety of audiences.
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.
9.3.1 Discusses with clients the Physical Activity (PA) Guidelines for Americans and the relationships between exercise, health, and disease prevention.
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.
9.4.5 Critically evaluates the safety and efficacy of traditional and pharmaceutical models.
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.
10.2.1 Evaluates learning needs of individuals and target groups.
10.6.1 Assesses client/patient nutritional needs and appropriateness of the counseling.
10.6.5 Demonstrates an understanding of transference and countertransference in therapeutic relationships.
11.1.2 Conducts nutrition screening to identify client/patient risks and levels of criticality, and to direct services.
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.
11.2.5 Conducts nutrition-focused physical examinations to determine nutritional statuses of clients.
11.2.6 Collects and analyzes anthropometric and body composition data to contribute to nutrition diagnoses.
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.
11.2.12 Gathers information that affects intake and nutrition and health status (e.g., cultural, ethnic, religious, lifestyle influencers, psychosocial, and social determinants of health).
11.2.14 Analyzes and synthesizes assessment data and findings to establish nutrition diagnoses.
11.2.15 Formulates PES (problem, etiology and signs/symptoms) statements to communicate nutrition diagnoses.
11.3.1 Establishes goals and desired outcomes in collaboration with clients/patients.
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.
11.3.7 Recommends therapeutic diets and dietary and oral nutrition supplements based on PES statements.
11.4.1 Identifies classifications of nutraceutical pharmacological agents and the action on the body.
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.
11.5.3 Adjusts interventions based on client/patient progress in meeting established goals.
13.1.1 Advocates for and promotes food and nutrition programs and resources to address issues of food insecurity, nutritional health and overall health and wellness.