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ForwardNutrition for the Low Birth Weight Infant
This course will present current recommendations for nutrition approaches for low birth weight infants to maximize postnatal growth and short- and long-term cognitive and health outcomes.
Learning Objectives
After completing this continuing education course, nutrition professionals should be better able to:
- State three benefits of early postnatal feeding for low birth weight (LBW) infants.
- Describe the advantages of using human breastmilk for LBW infants.
- Identify two reasons for use of human milk fortifiers for the infant receiving breastmilk.
- Provide three feeding suggestions for caregivers who are caring for LBW infants after discharge from the hospital.
Additional Information
Course content was written by Kathleen Searles, MS, RDN, LD, a nutrition consultant in private practice.
The faculty and planners for this educational 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 use 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