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Self-Study Workshops
(including recorded webinars)

FNCE 2010

SAVE THE DATE! Multi-state meeting of DHCC
When: September 16 & 17, 2010
Thursday afternoon, all day Friday
Location: Crown Plaza Resort and Tennis Club, Asheville NC
Details: Join us in Asheville for the first southeastern DHCC meeting. Meeting features nationally known speakers with timely topics. Save the Date brochure, click here (PDF)

Stay tuned for more information.
CPEUs: 10 CPEU, (approximately)
Sponsored By: Dietitians in Health Care Communities, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
Cost: $140.00 before September 1
$155.00 after September 1
Contact: Liz Friedrich

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Fall Conference at Floyd Valley Hospital in LeMars, Iowa
When: Friday, September 17, 2010
Location: Floyd Valley Hospital in LeMars, Iowa
Details: Topics include presentation by:
Karen Hill, state MS,RD, LD,
Cathy Breedon, PhD, RD, CSP, FADA,
Becky Weseman RD,CNSD, LMNT,
Sharon Vemeer, CDM
Brochure, click here
CPEUs: 6 CPEU for RDs and Dietary Managers
Contact: Janet Kehm RD, LD, CDE

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Person In Charge Program
When: Friday and Saturday September 17-18, 2010
Location: Best Western Icicle Inn
Leavenworth, WA
Details: Home Sweet Home: A program designed to enhance your facility's dietary services to create a home-like dining experience for your residents.

Download Brochure (Word)
CPEUs: Registration includes 10 CEUs on-site, plus a take-home manual for an additional 6 CEUs upon completion

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Tasting Costa Rica: a Tropical Culinary Adventure
When: November 13-20, 2010
Location: Alajuela, Costa Rica
Details: See attached
CPEUs: 26.5 CPEU, (approximately)
Cost: $2095; By August 15 $1995
Contact: Sheila M. Campbell
TastingCostaRica@hotmail.com

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OCD-HCF Annual Seminar
When: October 1, 2010
Time: 7:30 am - 5:00 pm
Location: Sanese Services
6465 Busch Blvd
Columbus, OH
Details: Download Brochure (pdf)
CPEUs: 9 hours
Cost: $110 nonmembers of OCD-HCF/$90 OCD-HCF Members
See Brochure
Contact: Call Cora Martin at (440) 487-8717

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SELF STUDY WORKSHOPS
Title: DHCC Applying the Nutrition Care Process in your Practice (Recorded from May 14)
Self-Study: Webinar Download
Cost: $30
Presenter: Carol H. Elliott, RD, LD/N
Peer Network Nutrition Diagnosis Member
Details: Session Summary:
This presentation will provide an overview of the history, background and development of the Nutrition Care Process (NCP). The session will explain the four steps in the NCP through a discussion of how to write Problem, Etiology, and Signs and Symptoms (PES) statements, how to write Nutrition Interventions for PES statements, how to utilize the Standard Language for Assessment, Monitoring & Evaluation, charting techniques and other applications. The presentation will incorporate personal experiences with applying the NCP in the field. Webinar participants will provide personal PES Statements for review and discussion. This firsthand knowledge will help participants implement the NCP in all of their nutritional care.

Educational Objectives:
  • To discuss an overview of the 4 steps of the Nutrition Care Process (NCP).
  • To discuss the writing of PES Statements, Nutrition Interventions, Indicators and Criteria.
  • To discuss methods to incorporate the Nutrition Care Process into daily charting techniques.
  • To discuss other applications of NCP in our practice.
  • To discuss and evaluate PES statements sent in by Webinar participants.
1.5 CPEUs – Level II (Suggested learning code: 3010, 5390, 5410)
To Register: Click Here To Register
  If you have already registered, click here to view the webinar.

Title: DHCC Webinar: Inflammatory Biomarkers & Metabolism Meltdown (Recorded from April 9)
Self-Study: Webinar Download
Details: Presented by: Mary Litchford, PhD, RD, LDN an acclaimed speaker, author, medical-legal expert and consultant to health care providers. Along with her consulting work, Dr. Litchford has built a national reputation for her many presentations, published articles and books on leading-edge clinical nutrition topics. She has authored state-of-the-art instructional software for the health care science students and advanced level continuing education courses for nutrition professionals.

Description: One hour program looking at the relationship between inflammatory stress, pro-inflammatory cytokines and nutritional status. Topics include failure to thrive, role of cytokines on multiple organ systems in the cascade of nutritional deficiencies associated with cachexia, and interpretation of biomarkers. Sample case studies using NCP and PES statements will be included.

Objectives:
Upon completion of this program, the successful participant will be able to:
  • Discuss the relationship between inflammatory stress, pro-inflammatory cytokines and nutritional status.
  • Examine the affect of pro-inflammatory cytokines on multiple organ systems.
  • Discuss interpretation of biomarkers using sample case studies incorporating NCP, PES statements and interventions.

CDR Learning Codes that can apply 3000, 3010, 3060, 4170, 4180, 4190, 5000, 5010, 5030, 5040, 5050, 5090. 5100 and other codes deemed appropriate.$30 per site

Cost: $30
To Register: Click here
  If you have already registered, click here to view the webinar.

Title: Listeria Control and Safe Food Training for Dietary Managers
Self-Study: Webinar Download
Details: Spring (April-June) 2010

FREE 1-Hour Online Food Safety Training Researchers with the Department of Food Science & Human Nutrition at Colorado State University are seeking registered dietitians, dietary managers and dietary staff who work in long term care to participate in a free one-hour online food safety training module "Listeria Control and Safe Food Training for Dietary Managers". Go to http://www.fshn.cahs.colostate.edu/extension/safefoodtraining.aspx.

Program is approved for 1 CEU through the Certifying Board for Dietary Managers (CBDM) and the Colorado Dietetic Association (CDA) until August 1, 2010.

For further information, contact Mary Schroeder, project coordinator at (970) 491-7335
Self-Study: Webinar Download
Details: Spring (April-June) 2010

FREE 1-Hour Online Food Safety Training Researchers with the Department of Food Science & Human Nutrition at Colorado State University are seeking registered dietitians, dietary managers and dietary staff who work in long term care to participate in a free one-hour online food safety training module "Listeria Control and Safe Food Training for Dietary Managers". Go to http://www.fshn.cahs.colostate.edu/extension/safefoodtraining.aspx.

Program is approved for 1 CEU through the Certifying Board for Dietary Managers (CBDM) and the Colorado Dietetic Association (CDA) until August 1, 2010.

For further information, contact Mary Schroeder, project coordinator at (970) 491-7335

Title: Minimizing the Risks of Practice: What Dietitians Should Know About Lawsuits and the Common Care Issues That Give Rise to Litigation Download (original date: Nov. 18)
Self-Study: Webinar Download
Details: Objectives:
At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:
1. recognize the common care issues and chain of events that prompt individuals to initiate litigation
2. define the elements of malpractice and duty
3. define a minimum of three strategies to improve documentation and patient care and reduce the risk of litigation

Abstract:
Medical malpractice claims, personal injury lawsuits, and wrongful death allegations are common in today’s healthcare environment. Some of the most common issues in lawsuits are unintended weight loss, dehydration and non-healing wounds. Since all of these issues have nutrition components, dietitians are more frequently finding themselves involved in these matters. It is important to have an understanding of the chain of events that prompt patients to initiate lawsuits so that healthcare professionals can take steps to minimize risks. This involves not only a thorough knowledge of the latest therapeutic treatments for these conditions but also knowledge of how the medical record, staff training, standards of practice and personal attitudes play into the outcome of lawsuits. This session will review the current legal landscape to further the understanding of how we can improve patient care while protecting ourselves.

Speaker Introduction:
Dr. Nancy Collins, founder of www.RD411.com, is a registered and licensed dietitian based in South Florida. Dr. Collins has over twenty years of practitioner experience in foodservice management, clinical nutrition, and consulting to health care institutions. She is nationally known as a medico-legal expert dealing with the issues of malnutrition, wound healing, and unintended weight loss and has served as an expert witness in over 400 legal matters. Dr. Collins is a frequent speaker at medical education symposia and a prolific author. Dr. Collins is an editorial advisor to the journal Advances in Skin and Wound Care, a contributing editor for Ostomy-Wound Management, and a columnist for Today’s Diet and Nutrition. She is also the member of many medical advisory boards including the American Professional Wound Care Association, which awarded her Fellow status. Dr. Collins is a past president of the Florida Dietetic Association and a past chairperson of the Nutrition Entrepreneurs practice group of the American Dietetic Association. In 2007, Dr. Collins was elected to a three year term as Florida affiliate delegate to the ADA.
Cost: $27
Purchase: DHCC Ecommerce Store
  If you have already registered, click here to view the webinar.

Title: Culture Change: Moving From Institutional to Person Centered Dining While Ensuring Regulatory Compliance Download (original date: Sept. 29)
Self-Study: Webinar Download
Details: Ask yourself why more than 50% of all SNF facilities are having huge 'barriers' in moving forward and transitioning from a comfortable traditional or 'institutional' food service to more person centered/home like dining with resident choice and self determination?

Some of that barrier has been perceptions of regulatory compliance. ('If we make that change, how do we know the surveyors won't ding us? We are not sure. At least now we have systems and control and know what they want'). The irony is that regulatory compliance has gained clarity: Facilities are to be making effort to start and progress with these transitions, not as an option, but NOW.

The seminar will capture and evaluate recent quality of life tag revisions, CMS guidance in various areas such as refusal of therapeutic diet and some sanitary conditions needing to be addressed with culture change, and offer encouragement.

SPEAKER
Linda Handy, MS, RD
Check out her website: www.handydietaryconsulting.com
Retired specialty surveyor, California Dept of Public Health
Presenter of CE Training & Manuals, Mock Surveys
San Marcos, CA 92078
linda@handydietaryconsulting.com
Cost: $30
Register: DHCC Ecommerce Store
  If you have already registered, click here to view the webinar.

Title: Energizing the Elderly - The Importance of Nitrogen Balance
Details: Speaker: William J. Evans, Ph.D., FACSM, FACN
Director, Nutrition, Metabolism, and Exercise Laboratory; Professor of Geriatrics, Physiology, and Nutrition; Donald Reynolds Department of Geriatric at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) at the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System. Little Rock, Arkansas

William J. Evans, Ph.D. is the director of the Nutrition, Metabolism, and Exercise Laboratory in the Donald Reynolds Department of Geriatric at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and a research scientist in the Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) at the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System. He is a Professor of Geriatrics, Physiology, and Nutrition. From 1993 to 1997 he was the director of the Noll Physiological Research Center at the Pennsylvania State University and from 1982 to 1993 he served as the Chief of the Human Physiology Laboratory at the U.S.D.A. Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. He is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, The American College of Nutrition, and an honorary member of the American Dietetic Association.

Details: Loss of skeletal muscle mass (sarcopenia) has many causes. New data points to the fact that aging increases the need for dietary protein and many elderly people consume a marginal or inadequate amount of protein, resulting in an accelerated rate of sarcopenia. Treatment and prevention of sarcopenia must incorporate dietary strategies to increase the consumption of high quality, lower fat protein along. When combined with exercise and decreased dietary fat, the use of a protein supplement may stimulate muscle protein synthesis and safely decrease body fatness in elderly people and reduce the risk of loss of independence.

Objectives:

Determine the appropriate dietary intervention to improve nitrogen balance in the elderly.

Discuss new scientific research identifying how a nutritional intervention can improve nitrogen balance, retention of lean body mass and increase muscle strength.

Evaluate an elderly patient who has been losing weight and muscle mass and provide evidence-based dietary recommendations.

Develop a safe and effective strategy to decrease body fatness while preserving lean body mass in older people.
CPEUs: 2 hours, Level II
Cost: $40
Purchase: DHCC Ecommerce Store
  If you have already registered, click here to view the webinar.

Title: Culture Change – The Beginning
Self-Study: Webinar Download
Details: Culture Change is here and Resident Centered Care is now! Integrating these philosophies into your nutrition care and dining service operations is no longer an option.

The silent generation, having survived the Depression, took life as it came, grateful for shelter and food on the table. Their children, the Baby Boomers, have an expectant attitude of life and paid services. The status quo of long-term care will be as foreign to them as living without a cell phone. They believe themselves to be youthful and foresee enjoyment in long-term living. It becomes our job to make this happen!

This is the first in a series of Webinars about Culture Change – your residents and their families are looking for resident-centered care. Are you ready??
CPEUs: 1
Cost: $30
Purchase: DHCC Ecommerce Store
  If you have already registered, click here to view the webinar.

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