Diabetes Mellitus: Conducting a Comprehensive Diet Assessment

This lecture will provide in-depth information on performing a comprehensive nutritional and diet assessment for patients with diabetes mellitus.

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Course curriculum

    1. Video Course

    1. Evaluation

Course Details

  • $18.00
  • 1 hour of video content

About the course

1.0 contact hour (CE credit)
Expiration date: November 1, 2027

This lecture will provide in-depth information on performing a comprehensive nutritional and diet assessment for patients with diabetes mellitus. 

  • Preparing to complete a diet assessment

  • Patient assessment and sample questions

  • When to refer to a registered dietician

  • Portion sizes

  • Food likes and dislikes

  • Screening for eating disorders

  • Impact of eating disorders on patients with diabetes mellitus  

Learning Outcome
The learner will report this educational activity provides information that improves, supports, or causes a change in their practice.

This nursing continuing professional development activity was approved by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

To obtain CE credits, learners must complete 90% of the lecture. Partial credit will not be granted. Learners will receive a CE certificate upon completion of the lecture and submission of a course evaluation form. 

Commercial Support
There is no commercial support for this lecture. 

Conflict of Interest
The presenter declares no conflicts of interest.

Instructor

Julie Rubenstein

RN, CDE

Julie Rubenstein RN, CDE has worked as a nurse in home care and internal medicine. Since 2019, she has been providing outpatient diabetes education full-time and became certified as a diabetes educator in 2022. Julie helps patients, colleagues and physicians choose the best medications, adapt healthy diet and exercise recommendations to their established routines, monitor and interpret blood sugar test results, plan healthy pregnancies and post-partum transitions, and administer and titrate insulin. She is passionate about helping patients become independent and confident while maintaining in-target blood sugars.