Course Description
Course Description:
Malnutrition is a major contributor to decreased function, decreased quality of life, increased readmission and length of hospital stay, decreased wound healing, increased surgical recovery time, increased complications and increased morbidity and mortality. Consequently, Registered Dietitians and their interprofessional team members are faced with multiple challenges to identify and address the complex needs of patients and residents who have signs and symptoms of malnutrition.
This course will identify the multiple nutritional risks of older adults and will empower dietitians and their interprofessional team members with tools to identify and address clinical outcomes associated with malnutrition. A special focus will be added for elders who are at greater risk due to the increased challenges of co-morbidities with the resulting highest rates of malnutrition. Regulatory requirements by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will also be shared to best equip the dietary team with tools to assure nutritional compliance.
Contact Hours: 2 
Target Audience: 
Instructional Level: Intermediate Accreditation Information:
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Course Outline:
Hour 1
- Malnutrition: Who’s at Risk?
- The prevalence and risk factors of malnutrition
- Nutritionally at-risk adults
- Clinical diagnoses associated with malnutrition
- Effects of medications on appetite nutritional intake
Hour 2
- Nutritional assessments for identification of malnutrition
- Evidence supporting the role of nutrition and hydration with clinical outcomes
- CMS efforts to improve patient safety and quality
- The Interprofessional team’s management of malnutrition
Course Goals & Objectives:
Course Goals:
This course is intended to instruct the professional on effectively identify and assess malnutrition with older patients, for effective clinical outcomes.
Professional Objectives:
- Identify the 3 etiology-based nutrition diagnoses in adults in clinical practice settings.
- Recognize the prevalence of malnutrition and its impact on clinical outcomes.
- List signs and symptoms of “nutritionally at-risk” adults.
- List the most common clinical diagnoses of people with the highest rates of malnutrition.
- Identify adverse effects of common medications affecting appetite and resulting in decreased nutritional intake.
- List effective laboratory data and nutritional assessments for identification of malnutrition.
- Identify the evidence supporting the positive impact nutrition and hydration has on improving patient outcomes.
- Identify the current Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) efforts to improve patient safety and quality.
- Identify example protocols to be recommended for each member of the interprofessional healthcare team member, for management of malnutrition.
Disclosures:
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Contact Hours: 2 contact hours in length (check your state’s approval status in the state specific course catalog for your profession).
Target Audience: Physical Therapist, Physical Therapist Assistant, Occupational Therapist, Occupational Therapist Assistant, Speech Language Pathologist, Nurse, Registered Dietician.
Instructional Level: Intermediate
Criteria for Completion: Criteria for Completion: A score of 70% or more is considered passing. Scores of less than 70% indicate a failure to understand the material and the test will need to be taken again until a passing score has been achieved
This course is offered for 0.20 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional area).
Personnel Disclosure:
Financial – Lisa Milliken is employed by Select Rehabilitation and receives a salary. She receives payment from HomeCEU for the presentation of this course.
Nonfinancial - no relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
Content Disclosure: This course does not focus solely on any specific product or service
Cancellation Policy: For activity cancellation, returns, or complaint resolution, please contact Anne Osborn by email Anne@HomeCEU or by phone at 1.800.55.4CEUS (2387). We have a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Refunds will be issued for courses that have not been completed (exam not taken), or for any course that has been rejected by your board of approval. Webinar attendance must be canceled 24 hours before the scheduled start time.
Authors:
Lisa Milliken, MA, CCC-SLP
Lisa Young Milliken, MA, CCC, FNAP, CDP received her master's degree from The University of Memphis in Audiology and Speech Language Pathology in 1987. She has since served adults and geriatrics as a clinician, manager, vice president, consultant, compliance manager and education director, and is most passionate about mentoring healthcare professionals in the post-acute facilities across the country. She currently provides continuing education support to therapists in over 950 sites nationwide as Education Specialist for Select Rehabilitation. She has authored and lectured at the state and national level with over 150 professional continuing education courses on a wide range of topics of importance to the healthcare professional who works with the older population.
Lisa is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), where she currently serves as a State Advocate for Medicare Policy (StAMP) for Texas. She serves on the Texas Speech-Language and Hearing Association (TSHA) Executive Council as well as on numerous other TSHA committees. She is a Certified Dementia Practitioner and is a Distinguished Fellowship of the National Academies of Practice. She is a prior board president of the Louisiana Speech-Language and Hearing Association (LSHA) and a past member of the Council of State Association Presidents (CSAP). Through her leadership positions on the Louisiana and Texas Association boards, Executive Council, National Academies of Practice and other organizations, she has purposed to advocate services of these associations’ members as well as for the clients and families served by the members.
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