CPEU/CEU: 14
NOTE: Course Expiration Date: 9/15/2028. 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.
1.1.5 Integrates new knowledge and skills into practice.
1.1.6 Recognizes and exercises professional judgment within the limits of individual qualifications.5.1.1 Demonstrates effective problem solving and professional judgment to address needs.
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.
1.7.1 Recognizes and respects cultural and racial diverse backgrounds to effectively interact and build meaningful relationships
with others (e.g., clients, employees, inter- and intra-professional team members and community and professional groups).
1.7.2 Recognizes the importance of diversity, orientation, social and cultural norms that may have an impact on individuals, groups
and plans of care.
1.7.3 Develops awareness of one’s own personal beliefs and values to inform and reduce biases.
1.7.5 Applies knowledge of cultural foods, religious traditions, eating patterns and food and nutrition trends.
2.1.2 Develops awareness of one’s own personal biases, privilege, beliefs and values to inform understanding of and reduce biases.
2.1.3 Reflects on how personal biases, privilege, and beliefs influence interpretation of evidence and research and changes behavior
accordingly.
2.1.6 Acknowledges the differences and complexities of individuals, including students/interns, patients and clients, and populations (e.g., individuals affected by specific conditions or illnesses and disability identities).
2.2.1 Recognizes and respects varied perspectives to effectively interact and build meaningful relationships with others (e.g., clients,
students/interns, employees, inter- and intra-professional team members and community and professional groups).
2.2.2 Recognizes the importance of differences, orientation, social and cultural norms that may have an impact on individuals, groups and plans of nutrition care, services or education.
2.2.3 Implements strategies to identify or create culturally relevant resources to support the needs of target population(s) through multiple mediums.
2.2.4 Recognizes benefits and strengths of a group’s collective experiences, beliefs, values, skills, and perspectives in the development of
programs and resources designed to meet the needs of distinct populations.
2.3.1 Demonstrates dedication towards integrating behaviors that support cultural humility in the delivery of nutrition and dietetics care, services, education, and advocacy.
2.3.3 Evaluates and addresses inequity and health disparities associated with social determinants of health.
2.4.4 Reflects in practice and communications with others, understanding of the influence of social determinants of health, including
culture, health literacy, and socioeconomic status on an individual’s personal health/illness experiences and access to healthcare
services and resources.
3.1.1 Assesses the communication needs of individuals, groups, and populations to provide effective communication.5.1.2 Interprets and integrates evidence-based research and literature in decision-making.
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 in a respectful and professional manner.
3.3.4 Collaborates with others when knowledge, skill or experience are beyond their competence level.
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.
5.1.5 Demonstrates effective, appropriate and timely consultation with experts and others.
5.1.6 Recognizes situations where nutrition and dietetics services should be adjusted, limited, modified or discontinued.
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.
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.
9.3.4 Assesses clients’ emotions toward nutrition-related statements or phenomenon, body image/preoccupation with food and weight, and readiness to change nutrition-related behaviors.
9.3.10 Refers clients to qualified professionals based on needs when skill is beyond competence and scope of practice.
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 services.
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 Critically evaluates the safety and efficacy of traditional and pharmaceutical models as it applies to nutrition and dietetics.
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.
10.4.1 Takes into consideration special needs and disabilities and provides accommodations.
10.4.3 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.
10.6.2 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.
11.1.1 Leads intra- and interprofessional teams to identify, develop, implement, and evaluate valid and reliable nutrition screening tools and procedures.
11.1.2 Conducts nutrition screening using standardized, validated, or reliable tools to identify client/patient risks and levels of criticality, and to direct services.
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 interactions.
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.
11.3.1 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.
11.3.7 Recommends nutrition support, therapeutic diets, and dietary and oral nutrition supplements.
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.
13.2.1 Identifies social determinants of health and influences on population health status.