CPEU/CEU: 8.75
NOTE: Course Expiration Date: 12/08/2026. 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.
2.1.1 Assesses the communication needs of individuals, groups and populations to provide effective communication.
2.3.5 Collaborates with others when knowledge, skill or experience are beyond their competence level.
4.1 Demonstrates sound professional judgement and strategic thinking in practice.
4.1.1 Demonstrates effective problem solving and professional judgment to address needs.
4.1.2 Interprets and integrates evidence-based research and literature in decision-making.
4.1.3 Identifies misinformation and inaccurate information in order to inform decision-making.
4.2.1 Identifies potential or existing opportunities and challenges.
4.2.4 Investigates alternative explanations for deficits or challenges and considers alternative methods and provides justification for selected option(s).
4.2.6 Integrates relevant information with previous learning, experience, professional knowledge, and current practice models.
4.2.8 Evaluates the effectiveness of plans and decisions and make adjustments when needed.
5.2.1 Integrates technology platforms with other internal and external services (e.g., risk management, disease management, data tracking and reporting).
5.2.5 Instructs or advises others on the use of clinical information systems, nutrition informatics tools and other technology topics.
6.2.3 Analyzes and interprets data to form valid conclusions and to make recommendations.
6.8.1 Masters and maintains current and evidence-based knowledge within subject areas.
7.4.7 Uses established benchmarking and best practices to inform practice.
8.1.1 Interprets and applies evidence-based comparative standards for determining nutritional needs.
8.1.2 Applies knowledge of food and nutrition as well as the biological, physical and social sciences in practice.
8.1.4 Integrates knowledge of macro- and micronutrients for digestion, absorption and metabolism throughout the lifespan in practice.
8.1.5 Applies medical nutrition therapy in disease prevention and management.
8.2.1 Assesses the physical, social and cultural needs of the individual, group, community or population.
8.2.2 Applies knowledge of health determinants when planning, developing and implementing services, programs, meal plans and menus.
8.2.3 Analyzes new information and how it impacts medical nutrition therapy.
8.2.4 Integrates new knowledge of disease states and clinical conditions into practice.
8.3.1 Discusses with clients the Physical Activity (PA) Guidelines for Americans and the relationships between exercise, health, and disease prevention.
8.3.7 Demonstrates an understanding of the ways in which progressive exercise training influences nutrition needs to support positive metabolic, structural, and immunological adaptations.
8.3.8 Creates a nutrition care plan to match energy and other nutrient and fluid needs to maintain health, optimize performance and reduce the likelihood of negative exercise outcomes (e.g., overtraining, injury).
8.3.9 Develops nutrition periodization plans that match changes in training cycles.
8.3.11 Refers clients to qualified fitness professionals for formal fitness assessment and exercise prescription when skill is beyond competence and scope of practice.
8.4 Critically evaluates the safety and efficacy of integrative and functional medicine approaches and interventions.
8.4.1 Gains an understanding of integrative and functional medicine models and interventions and how these models and interventions are applied to nutrition and dietetics service.
8.4.2 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.
8.4.3 Identifies research gaps to support conscious decision-making.
8.4.4 Identifies safety issues, risks, efficacies, benefits and limitations of interventions.
8.4.5 Critically evaluates the safety and efficacy of traditional and pharmaceutical models.
8.5.1 Plans and designs nutritionally sound meals, menus and meal plans that promote health and disease management, and meet client needs.
9.6.1 Assesses client/patient nutritional needs and appropriateness of the counseling.
9.6.11 Refers client/patient to appropriate professionals when counseling, therapy or mental health status is beyond competence and legislative scope of practice.
10.1.3 Compares nutrition screening results with normative references in order to determine nutrition risks to individuals.
10.2.1 Selects valid and reliable tools to conduct comprehensive nutrition assessments.
10.2.2 Interviews clients/patients and reviews health records to collect information about medical history and food and nutrition intake.
10.2.5 Conducts nutrition-focused physical examinations to determine nutritional statuses of clients.
10.2.7 Performs calculations to determine nutritional requirements by identifying and utilizing patient-appropriate formula.
10.2.8 Recommends biochemical tests and reviews results to support diagnoses and plans of care.
10.2.9 Orders biochemical tests and reviews results to support diagnoses and plans of care.
10.2.11 Assesses cognitive and physical attributes that affect nutritionrelated tasks (e.g., self feeding and other activities of daily living [ADLs]) and instrumental ADLs (e.g., shopping and food
preparation).10.2.12 Gathers information that affects intake and nutrition and health status (e.g., cultural, ethnic, religious, lifestyle influencers, psychosocial, and social determinants of health).
10.2.14 Analyzes and synthesizes assessment data and findings to establish nutrition diagnoses.
10.3.1 Establishes goals and desired outcomes in collaboration with clients/patients.
10.3.2 Determines factors impacting client/patient progress in meeting goals and adjusts nutrition care plans accordingly.
10.3.3 Prioritizes specific nutrition problems to inform nutrition care plans and processes.
10.3.4 Selects interventions intended to resolve or improve nutrition diagnoses.
10.3.5 Establishes nutrition care plans, defining the time, frequency, and duration of interventions.
10.3.6 Develops nutrition prescriptions to communicate clients’/patients’ customized diet and nutrition needs.
10.3.9 Leads the implementation of nutrition interventions in collaboration with clients/patients and the interprofessional team.
10.4 Prescribes, recommends and administers nutrition-related pharmacotherapy to support optimal patient/client outcomes according to standard of practice, legislation and organizational policies.
10.4.1 Identifies classifications of nutraceutical pharmacological agents and the action on the body.
10.4.3 Identifies potential food-nutrient drug interactions based on physiological responses to pharmacological agents and takes appropriate action.
10.4.4 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.
10.4.5 Implements, initiates, or modifies nutrition-related pharmacotherapy orders that address client/patient needs
10.4.7 Evaluates, educates and counsels on the interrelationship and impact of pharmacotherapy on nutrients.
10.5.1 Reevaluates and adjusts plans of care to support client/patient health goals.
10.5.2 Monitors and identifies factors affecting client/patient progress in meeting goals.
10.5.3 Adjusts interventions based on client/patient progress in meeting established goals.
10.5.4 Establishes new goals and nutrition care plans when original or interim goals are met.
12.2.1 Identifies determinants of health and influences on population health status.