Study Guide: The Essential Pocket Guide for Clinical Nutrition: Third Edition

This continuing education activity The Essential Pocket Guide for Clinical Nutrition consists of a book of the same title by Mary Width and Tonia Reinhard and this Study Guide. This activity is designed to help you understand nutrition assessment, diagnosis, and treatments for a variety of nutrition and medical conditions. It is also designed to help you earn 32 continuing education credits for dietetics (CDR CPEU).

Learning Objectives

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

  1. Identify the nutrition implications are for various pathologies.
  2. Recommend a variety of nutrition treatments and interventions based on the nutrition diagnoses.
  3. Evaluate the scientific validity and evidence behind nutrition interventions.
  4. Provide recommendations to other members of the healthcare team to enhance a patients’ care when it is outside the scope of practice for Registered Dietitians.

Additional Information

CDR Activity Type: 
102
CPE Level: 
2
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 32.00 CDR
Course opens: 
08/26/2024
Course expires: 
08/25/2027
Cost:
$255.95
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Robert Iafelice, MS, RD, LDN, is a freelance medical writer and member of the American Medical Writers Association. He has contributed several chapters to the 6th edition of Disease Prevention and Treatment, a medical reference book of evidence-based protocols to combat the diseases of aging. Among the protocols he authored, “Celiac Disease and Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity” is particularly relevant to this CPE program. 
Robert received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and a Master of Science degree in Nutrition Science from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Most of his experience as a practicing registered dietitian was in the field of integrative/functional medicine with a focus on food allergy. Robert provided medical nutrition therapy at an integrative allergy-immunology clinic in Chicago, where he specialized in conducting double-blind, placebo-controlled food challenges – the gold standard for food allergy diagnosis. 
Robert’s diverse background also includes extensive experience in fitness/wellness as a gym owner, university nutrition instructor, health educator in the nutraceuticals industry, and oncology. His other writing interests include intermittent fasting, nutritional ketosis, and high-intensity interval training.  

Robert Iafelice, MS, RD, LDN, 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

  • 32.00 CDR

Price

Cost:
$255.95
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