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Emerging Developments in Human Milk Fortification: Problem Solving for Clinical Practice
Human milk science is evolving at a rapid pace, shaping neonatal nutrition practices significantly. Nonetheless, optimizing growth and development in the NICU remains a challenge. Ariel Salas, MD, MSPH, and Brian Stansfield, MD, are leaders in human milk research, as well as in the clinical application of these findings. In a solutions-based presentation, Drs. Salas and Stansfield present recent clinical trial and real-world data on strategies for optimizing preterm nutrition. In this symposiu... |
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Advising Parents on Complementary Feeding and Food Allergy Prevention
Complementary feeding can be a stressful period for caregivers of infants, with confusing and often conflicting guidance regarding best practices. This education begins with an overview of current recommendations for complementary feeding before focusing on early allergen introduction between 4 and 6 months of age. The data supporting early allergen introduction are reviewed along with current real-world practices and recommendations for improving uptake. Using a case-based approach, common co... |
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Cleveland Clinic 18th Annual Obesity Summit
Cleveland Clinic’s 18th Annual Obesity Summit is designed for a diverse mix of health care practitioners interested in innovative solutions and new strategies to care for patients with obesity. Causes of obesity and diabetes, preventive strategies, and therapeutic management approaches are discussed throughout this activity, with special focus place on health disparities, lifestyle, diet & exercise, surgical treatment, medication, patient-centered treatment, complications and weight recu... |
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Ethics in Nutrition
Ethics in Nutrition is a 1-hour online continuing education (CE/CPEU) course that addresses the ethics of practice in nutrition and dietetics with the latest Code of Ethics from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Ethical practice is a requirement and a duty of all health professionals. We are in a life and death business where mistakes or misjudgments can cause real harm, such as in the case of medical errors. Being an ethical practitioner is your responsibility. Some situations seem c... |
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Preventing Medical Errors in Dietetics Practice
Preventing Medical Errors in Dietetics Practice is a 2-hour video continuing education (CE/CEU) course recorded at the Annual Symposium of the Florida Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
This course addresses the impact of medical errors on today’s healthcare with a focus on root cause analysis, error reduction and prevention, and patient safety in the practice of nutrition and dietetics. The impact of COVID-19, legislation updates, real life stories, national healthcare safety trends, re... |
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Comprehensive Dysphagia - Tom Franceschini, MS, CCC-SLP
Comprehensive Dysphagia Interventions: The Esophagus, Acid Reflux Disease, Prevention of Aspiration Pneumonia, Free Water Protocols, Oral Hygiene, Xerostomia and Meds & Dysphagia
Swallowing doesn't end at the pharynx. As such, comprehensive dysphagia interventions cannot consist solely of muscle exercises, maneuvers, compensatory postures, and diet modifications. To ensure the highest quality of care is achieved, dysphagia clinicians must consider other factors that contribute to swallowing... |
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Back to Basics: Typical Swallowing Physiology in Adults - Rik Lemoncello, PhD, CCC-SLP
This course will present current best information to help clinicians learn about typical aspects of oropharyngeal and esophageal swallowing in adults and older adults. This course is ideal for clinicians who need a refresher on typical adult swallowing, and is appropriate for SLP, OT, dietary, nursing, and other medical clinicians involved with interprofessional management of dysphagia. Information covered will include review of sensory and motor control of swallowing, timing and neurological ... |
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Topics in the Delivery of Swallowing Services - Dr. John Tracy and Athena Nofziger, RDN, LD, CHC
The presenters are a clinical dietitian and a speech-language pathologist. This course will include issues related to the clinical swallowing evaluation, a demonstration of a clinical swallowing evaluation, criteria for recommending an instrumental evaluation, the role of the speech pathologist in identifying and evaluating esophageal disorders, life saving and end of life issues related to swallowing, artificial means of nutrition and achieving oral intake and hydration in those with dementia... |
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Treatments for Feeding, Speech & Mouth Functions in Pediatrics - Diane Bahr, MS CCC-SLP CIMI
Early intervention and pediatric treatment are changing. There are not enough resources to serve the numerous children with feeding, speech/communication, and mouth function problems (e.g., those with prematurity, autism, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, other congenital disorders, etc.). Occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, early intervention specialists, dieticians, pediatricians, nurses, and others need detailed information to make appropriate referrals, choose appropriate t... |
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Therapy Tidbits - Winter 2020
Therapy Tidbits " Winter 2020 is a 1-hour online continuing education (CE) course comprised of select articles from the Winter 2020 issue of The National Psychologist, a private, independent, quarterly newspaper intended to keep psychologists informed about practice issues. The articles included in this course are:
Settlement Sought in Hoffman Report Suit - A brief overview of the Hoffman Report.
Psychologists Can Play Big Role in Stemming Opioid Crisis - Outlines the ways psycholog... |
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Autism: The New Spectrum of Diagnostics, Treatment & Nutrition
Autism: The New Spectrum of Diagnostics, Treatment & Nutrition is a 4-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that reviews diagnostic changes in autism as well as treatment options and nutrition interventions - both theoretical and applied.
The first section traces the history of the diagnostic concept of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), culminating in the revised criteria of the 2013 version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the DSM-5, with specific ... |
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Preventing Medical Errors in Nutrition & Dietetics
Preventing Medical Errors in Nutrition & Dietetics is a 2-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that addresses the impact of medical errors on today’s healthcare with a focus on root cause analysis, error reduction and prevention, and patient safety in the practice of nutrition and dietetics.
The course highlights the importance of critical thinking in assessment and planning and discusses health literacy, cultural competence, links between ethics and medical errors, centrality... |
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Nutrition Therapy for ASD
Nutrition Therapy for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a 3-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that addresses the feeding challenges, nutrient deficiencies, and dietary approaches used to enhance the quality of life for individuals with ASD.
Nutrition therapy for ASD is a personalized approach that aims to address the unique nutritional needs of individuals with ASD. This course provides an update on the prevalence of ASD as well as the three major initiatives issued by HHS i... |
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