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Overview
The goal of this course is to educate health professionals in the acute care setting on patient health and body shapes.Goals and Learning Outcomes
Healthcare providers play an important role in identifying and treating patients affected by overweight and obesity through the provision of education, monitoring, and specialty referrals. However, understanding a patient’s body fat distribution and the risk it carries for the comorbidities of obesity is an important component of identification and treatment. This course will review the different types of body fat, its distribution, and techniques for assessing it in patients. It will also review the comorbidities of obesity and recommended therapies for reducing total body fat and the subsequent risk for chronic disease.
- Recognize the different types of body fat, its distribution, and techniques for assessing it in patients.
- Recall the overall health risks associated with obesity and the health risks specific to visceral adipose obesity.
- Recall the recommended therapies for reducing overall body fat.
Course Details
Course Originally Released on : 12/1/2022
REL-ACU-0-PHBS
Course Author
RD, LDN
Accreditations
NURSES
In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC 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.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791
Disclaimer: Not all courses will provide California Board of Registered Nursing approval. Per California Assembly Bill No. 241, continuing education courses related to direct patient care shall address at least one or a combination of the following:(1) Examples of how implicit bias affects perceptions and treatment decisions of licensees, leading to disparities in health outcomes; or (2) Strategies to address how unintended biases in decision-making may contribute to health care disparities by shaping behavior and producing differences in medical treatment along lines of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics.
CEBroker
Relias LLC reports to CEBroker for the following boards (Provider # 50-1489): Arkansas State Board Of Nursing, District Of Columbia Board Of Nursing, Florida Board Of Nursing, Georgia Board Of Nursing, New Mexico Board Of Nursing, South Carolina Board Of Nursing and West Virginia Board Of Examiners For Registered Professional Nurses
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Disclosures
None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.