Malnutrition in Older Adults, Post-Acute and Long Term Care, All Staff
Frail & elderly patients have complex needs which requires the healthcare team to develop competencies to properly care for them. Some of Duke University’s most respected clinicians and researchers developed an extensive program that identifies risks and needs of frail and elderly patients. These role based and care specific modules provide knowledge and best practices for caring for caring for these medically fragile patients and their families. This program is specifically designed for Post-Acute care focuses on critical areas of care such as delirium, transitions of care, medication management, malnutrition, and shared decision making.
Target Audience
Allied Health: PT, PTA, OT, COTA, SLP, SW, Recreational Therapists, Respiratory Therapists
Frontline Staff: CNAs LPN, RN
Providers/Prescribers: NP, CNS
Learning Objectives
This course discusses the many factors that put older adults at risk for malnutrition and describes the team's responsibility to assess, manage and prevent malnutrition in the post acute care and long term care settings. This course is currently available on the Duke LMS. The CE application is being renewed.
Gwendolen Toni Buhr, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine
Margaret (Midge) T. Bowers, DNP, RN, FNP-BC, CHFN, A.A.C.C., FAANP, Associate Professor, Duke University School of Nursing
Mitchell T. Heflin, MD, MHS, Associate Professor of Medicine, Senior Fellow in the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Duke University School of Medicine
Thomas LeBlanc, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine
Loretta Matters, MSN, RN-BC, Associate Director, Duke NICHE
Eleanor S. McConnell, PhD, MSN, RN, GCNS, BC, Associate Professor, Director of the Center of Excellence in Geriatric Nursing Education, Duke University School of Nursing
Shelley R McDonald, DO, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine
Valerie K. Sabol, PhD, ACNP-BC, GNP-BC, CNE, FAANP, Professor, Duke University School of Nursing
Kathryn Starr, PhD, RD, Associate Professor in Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine
Benjamin Smith, PharmD, BCACP, CPP, BCGP Associate Chief Pharmacy Officer, DukeHealth
Heidi Kay White, MD, MEd, Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine
ANCC
IACET CEU
JA Credit - AH
Available Credit
- 1.00 ANCC
- 1.00 Attendance
- 0.10 IACET CEU