Study Guide: Oncology Nutrition for Clinical Practice, Second Edition

This continuing education activity, Oncology Nutrition for Clinical Practice, Second Edition, consists of a book of the same title edited by Anne Coble Voss, PhD, RDN, LDN, and Valaree Williams, MS, RD, CSO, LDN, CNSC, FAND, and this Study Guide. This continuing education activity is designed to help you increase your knowledge of the basics of cancer development, diagnosis, and treatment, nutritional impacts of cancer, and medical nutrition therapy for patients with cancer. It is also designed to help you earn 55 continuing education credits for dietetics (CDR CPEU).  

Learning Objectives

After completing this activity, nutrition professionals will better be able to:

  1. Implement cancer staging knowledge to provide medical nutrition therapy for patients with cancer. 

  1. Identify potential areas of difficulty in meeting nutritional needs throughout cancer treatment. 

  1. Formulate medical nutrition therapy interventions for a variety of cancer diagnoses. 

  1. Counsel clients and patients on cancer prevention and survivorship by applying findings from recent research and guidelines.   

  1. Determine the nutrition needs of patients with cancer. 

Additional Information

CDR Activity Type: 
102
CPE Level: 
2
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 55.00 CDR
Course opens: 
06/06/2024
Course expires: 
06/05/2027
Cost:
$419.95
Rating: 
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Valaree Williams, MS, RD, CSO, LDN, CNSC, FAND became a registered dietitian nutritionist in 2006 and has focused many years of her work on the provision of nutrition care to patients with cancer. She is currently employed as a clinical dietitian at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Middletown, New Jersey. She serves in volunteer roles for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Commission on Dietetic Registration and ASPEN and currently serves as the chair for CDR. Additionally, she has contributed to several oncology nutrition publications.  

Valaree received a Bachelor of Science degree in dietetics from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania and completed her dietetic internship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian-Shadyside.  She continued to obtain a Master of Health Sciences degree from Chatham University. 
 

Valaree Williams, MS, RD, CSO, LDN, CNSC, FAND, faculty for this activity, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose. 

The planners for this educational activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose. 

An “ineligible company” includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients 

 

In support of improving patient care, Great Valley Publishing Company (publisher of Wolf Rinke Associates) is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

This activity will also award credit for dietetics (CDR CPEU).


RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner’s discretion.

Available Credit

  • 55.00 CDR

Price

Cost:
$419.95
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