Nutrition Assessment and Prescription for Rehabilitation Professionals

Course Description:

The purpose of the Assessment and Prescription course is to provide you with an intermediate level of knowledge of nutrition, nutrition assessment, and dietary prescription. Topics will include scope of practice assessment, dietary clinical assessments and problem list creation, and dietary prescription concepts specific for rehabilitation outcomes. The course will be presented in a multimedia approach including visual, auditory, and interactive components to optimize learning for all participants.

This course is not designed to train the rehab professional to become a dietitian, nor does it replace prudent referral to licensed dietary services. 

Objectives:

At the conclusion of the module, clinicians will be able to:

1. Analyze whether a clinician should be provided specific nutritional services, referred to a licensed dietician or other provider, or deferred for nutritional care altogether.
2. Understand how to use the following dietary assessments: 24-hour dietary recall, dietary record, and the Food Frequency Questionnaire.
3. Recall online resources for screening, such as the Fruit, Vegetable, Fiber Screener; Fat Intake Screener; and Mini Nutritional Assessment.
4. Compare and contrast the benefits and drawbacks to the 24-hour dietary recall, dietary record, and the Food Frequency Questionnaire.
5. Perform the components of a basic nutrition history
6. Understand the following forms of physical dietary assessment: serum nutrient levels, saliva testing, and urine sampling
7. Compare and contrast the benefits and drawbacks to: serum nutrient levels, saliva testing, and urine sampling
8. Apply the appropriate assessment tool(s) given a specific patient case
9. Explain the role and methods of dietary goal setting
10. Provide examples of dietary goal setting specific for patient outcomes
11. Recall common dietary calculations for macronutrients to promote energy balance and healing for patients
12. Outline a full dietary prescription including: types and amounts of foods, frequency, prep, calculation of energy needs, calculation of macronutrient needs, nutrient factors, contextual factors
13. Analyze patients’ dietary prescriptions and provide dietary prescriptive recommendations to optimize healing, movement, and/or reduce pain.

Note: If you have signed up for the Modern Mastery Program by Erson Religioso, do not register for this course. This course is included in the Mastery Program

CEUs

This course has been approved by the Florida Physical Therapy Association (FPTA) for CEUs.