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Activity Steps

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Description

Method of Participation in the Learning Process/Evaluation Method

Successful completion of this activity includes reading the entire article and successfully completing the post-quiz and an evaluation form.

Getting the Most out of the Activity

As you prepare to participate in this activity, please reflect on your practice and your patients and identify clinical challenges you hope to have addressed.

While participating in the training, identify ways you can use newly acquired knowledge, strategies, and skills to enhance patient outcomes and your own professional development.

Purpose of Activity

To review the nutrition-related recommendations presented in the 2019 European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel, National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel, and Pan Pacific Pressure Injury Alliance Prevention and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers/Injuries: Clinical Practice Guideline with further discussion of nutrition for pressure injury management in the context of the recommendations.

Learning Objectives

After completing this continuing education activity you will be able to:

  1. Distinguish nutrition and malnutrition, especially as they relate to the development and healing of pressure injuries.
  2. Differentiate the tools and techniques that help clinicians assess nutrition status as well as the causes of pressure injuries in specific populations.
  3. Identify interventions for improving nutrition status and promoting pressure injury healing.

Disclosures

The authors, faculty, staff, and planners, including spouses/partners (if any), in any position to control the content of this CME/CNE activity have disclosed that they have no financial relationships with, or financial interests in, any commercial companies relevant to this educational activity.

Price: $22.00

Credits:

  • ACCME 1.0 CME

Lippincott Continuing Medical Education Institute, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Lippincott Continuing Medical Education Institute, Inc. designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Planner
Professions: Physician
Test Code: ASWC0320A
Published: Mar 2020
Expires: 1/1/2026
Sources: Advances in Skin & Wound Care: The Journal for Prevention and Healing
Required Passing Score: 14/20 (70%)
Authors: Nancy Munoz, DNC, MHA, RDN, FAND; Mary Ellen Posthauer, RDN, LD, FAND; Emanuele Cereda, MD, PhD; Jos M. G. A. Schols, MD, PhD; Emily Haesler, PhD, BN
Categories: Dermatology , Wound Care
Specialties: Burn Care, Dermatology, Wound
Topics: Nutrition , Pressure Ulcer