The Intersection of Trauma and Nutrition Care: Where Do RDNs Fit?

This course will provide an overview of the ways that trauma affects nutrition care and review the current research linking trauma to nutrition outcomes. A trauma-informed approach can help RDNs improve communication skills and optimize patient care.

Learning Objectives

After completing this continuing education course, nutrition professionals should be better able to:

  1. Describe how trauma-informed care fits into nutrition services and contrast that skillset with trauma-focused practice.
  2. Evaluate the strength of the available data linking trauma and eating disorders, diabetes, CVD, functional gastrointestinal disorders, and higher weight.
  3. Assess current professional practices and consider next steps to incorporate trauma-informed principles in nutrition care.

Additional Information

CDR Activity Type: 
102
CPE Level: 
2
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 2.00 CDR
Course opens: 
12/15/2023
Course expires: 
12/14/2026
CE Club cost:
$12.00
CE Club cost:
$0.00
Cost:
$24.00
Rating: 
0

Course content was written by Cheryl Iny Harris, MPH, RDN, a trauma-sensitive mindfulness practitioner and digestive specialist in private practice in Burke, Virginia.

The faculty and planners for this activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

An "ineligible company" includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

In support of improving patient care, Great Valley Publishing Company 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.

This activity will also award credit for dietetics (CDR CPEU).

RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner’s discretion.

Available Credit

  • 2.00 CDR

Price

CE Club cost:
$12.00
CE Club cost:
$0.00
Cost:
$24.00
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