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Medical Nutrition Therapy for Diabetes Mellitus, 8th Edition

C324
20 CPEUs
HARD COPY
$194.95
C324E
20 CPEUs
ELECTRONIC
$184.95

This comprehensive, up-to-date manual has been written by one of the most renowned diabetes educators in the country. You will learn how you can have a major impact on medical and clinical outcomes and help patients with diabetes achieve dramatic improvements in the quality of life. You will discover how to:

  • apply strategies for attaining and maintaining blood glucose control in T1D
  • implement strategies to achieve nutrition goals for persons with T2D
  • recommend guidelines for carbohydrate in diabetes meal planning
  • identify long-term complications of diabetes
  • specify guidelines for fat in diabetes meal planning
  • recognize five stages of intentional behavior change as outlined by the transtheoretical model of change
  • provide follow-up and ongoing nutrition care for people with diabetes
  • plus much, much more

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OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this accredited, self-directed learning program, the nutrition professional should be able to:

  • Recognize types of glucose intolerance, screening recommendations, and diagnostic criteria.
  • Identify symptoms and discuss etiologies of the different classifications of diabetes.
  • Implement lifestyle interventions with research support for the prevention of diabetes.
  • Implement the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Nutrition Practice Guideline (Academy NPG) for the Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes (T2D).
  • Monitor outcomes from the implementation of the Academy NPG.
  • Recommend blood glucose, lipid, and blood pressure goals for persons with diabetes.
  • Evaluate and monitor outcomes from MNT for diabetes.
  • Identify interventions leading to desired MNT outcomes.
  • List goals of MNT.
  • Apply strategies for attaining and maintaining blood glucose targets in type 1 diabetes (T1D).
  • Monitor outcomes from implementation of MNT for T1D.
  • Implement strategies to achieve the nutrition goals for persons with T2D.
  • Monitor outcomes from implementation of MNT for T2D.
  • Recommend guidelines for total and types of carbohydrates in diabetes Eating Plans.
  • Define acceptable daily intake for nonnutritive sweeteners.
  • Discuss the role of protein in overall diabetes management.
  • Recommend guidelines for types and amounts of fat in diabetes Eating Plans.
  • Suggest guidelines for the use of alcoholic beverages.
  • Recommend guidelines that allow a person with diabetes to exercise safely.
  • Recognize classes of glucose-lowering medications and their primary mode of action.
  • Identify types, peak effect, and usual duration for insulins.
  • Recognize two types of monitoring of glucose.
  • Monitor outcomes from implementation of self-management education and support.
  • Evaluate the role of technology in MNT, patient care, and lifestyle change.
  • Recognize how the diabetes-focused dietitian/educator can be a leader/expert consultant in health care in optimizing diabetes care in evolving payment and care models.
  • Integrate digital health technology, such as eHealth tools, into clinical practice.
  • Recognize the causes and treatment for hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, and ketoacidosis.
  • Identify four long-term complications of diabetes.
  • Implement MNT for the prevention and treatment of macrovascular disease, hypertension, microvascular disease, and nephropathy.
  • Monitor outcomes from the implementation of MNT for the prevention and treatment of long-term diabetes-related complications.
  • Implement MNT interventions for pregnancy with preexisting diabetes and gestational diabetes (GDM).
  • Monitor outcomes from the implementation of MNT intervention for pregnancy with preexisting diabetes and GDM.
  • Recognize the roles of RDNs beyond implementation of MNT.
  • Assess the components of the NCP and their application to diabetes MNT.
  • Recognize potential nutrition diagnoses related to diabetes.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Marion J. Franz is a registered dietitian nutritionist and a certified diabetes educator with a master’s degree in nutrition from the University of Minnesota. She is a nutrition/health consultant with Nutrition Concepts by Franz, Inc. For more than 20 years she was the Director of Nutrition and Health Professional Education at the International Diabetes Center, Minneapolis. She has authored books, numerous articles in professional and lay journals, and chapters in texts and manuals for professionals and the lay public. She lectures frequently in the United States and internationally on nutrition, exercise, and diabetes. She has co-chaired and been a member of task forces to write the American Diabetes Association’s nutrition recommendations and technical reviews, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ nutrition practice guidelines for type 1 and type 2 diabetes, and an editor of the American Diabetes Association Guide to Nutrition Therapy for Diabetes, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd edition. She received the 2001 American Diabetes Association Charles H. Best Medal for Distinguished Service in the Cause of Diabetes, the American Dietetic Association 2006 Medallion Award, the American Dietetic Association 2008 Huddleson Award, and the 2012 American Association of Diabetes Educators Living Legend Award.

Janice MacLeod is a registered dietitian nutritionist and a certified diabetes educator with a master’s degree in Psychology from Hollins University. She serves as the Director, Clinical Innovation for WellDoc, a digital health company. She previously served at the University of Maryland Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology as Senior Diabetes Network Coordinator and began her career as a diabetes dietitian with Carilion Health System in Roanoke, VA. She worked for many years at Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Care as Clinical Affairs Manager developing web- and mobile-based diabetes management tools and as Diabetes Senior Medical Science Liaison. She has served as both author and editor for multiple publications, contributed to book and curriculum manuals on diabetes, and has developed numerous continuing education programs and presentations on diabetes nutrition, glucose monitoring, digital health, and practice transformation. She has been a member of task forces to write the American Diabetes Association nutrition recommendations, the Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support Standards, and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Nutrition Practice Guideline for Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes. She is currently serving as editor of the Academy’s Diabetes Care and Education Practice group’s national peer-reviewed publication, On The Cutting Edge.

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