Study Guide: Pocket Guide to the Nutrition Care Process and Cancer
This continuing education activity, Pocket Guide to the Nutrition Care Process and Cancer, consists of a pocket guide of the same title by Barbara Grant and this Study Guide. This continuing education activity is designed to help you integrate evidence-based nutrition and cancer recommendations into the provision of nutrition care for patients diagnosed with cancer. It is also designed to help you earn 16 continuing education credits for dietetics (CDR CPEU).
Learning Objectives
After completing this activity, nutrition professionals will better be able to:
- Counsel clients and patients in understanding the role of adequate nutrition and weight stability during cancer treatment.
- Apply nutrition screening methods to practice and program development.
- Determine appropriate intervention for nutrition diagnosis.
- Develop individualized nutrition prescription for patients
Additional Information
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, 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
- 16.00 CDR