Heart-Healthy Lifestyle Counseling: Making the Clinical Encounter More Efficient-and Effective

Making and sustaining changes in dietary habits, physical activity levels and smoking cessation are integral components of reducing cardiovascular disease risk, specifically in reaching target blood pressure, weight, and lipid goals. Providing the information, support and tools to patients in a brief clinical encounter can pose a difficult challenge for nurses, advanced practice nurses, dietitians, and exercise specialists. These challenges commonly present as gaps in the availability of time, easily accessible tools, or expertise. Join us for Healthy Lifestyle Change: Making the Clinical Encounter More Efficient-and Effective on February 27 @ 12 noon CT for an important web-based presentation which will explore common challenges, practical solutions, and a new collection of simple tools and resources to support your work and your patients' efforts. 

 

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES: 

  • Describe the integration of brief dietary counseling into a clinical visit.
  • Define the concept of "exercise is medicine."
  • Demonstrate how patient education tools can be used to supplement the clinical encounter

 

AUDIENCE:

Nurses, advanced practice nurses, dietitians, exercise specialists

 

NOTE:

  • Original Live Presentation February  27, 2013
  • Reviewed by PCNA CE committee January 2014
  • Reviewed date: January 2017

 

Seminar Information
Seminar Date:
February 27, 2013
Heart Healthy Lifestyle Counseling: Making the Clinical Encounter More Efficient-and Effective
  FACULTY DISCLOSURES:

All speakers have declared no current affiliation or financial arrangement with any grantor or commercial interests that might have direct interest in the subject matter of this continuing education program.

Speaker Information
Lynne T. Braun, PhD, CNP, FAHA, FAAN   [ view bio ]
Catherine Christie, PhD, RD, LD/N, FADA   [ view bio ]
Jane Nelson Worel, MSN, APRN-BC, APNP   [ view bio ]
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PARTICIPATION IN THE ACTIVITY AND RECEIPT OF CERTIFICATE OF CREDIT:
View the course materials; complete the post-test (you can take the post-test more than once if needed to achieve a passing score of 75%) and online evaluation form at the end of the activity, and print your CE certificate.


ACCREDITOR:

This educational activity is provided by the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association (PCNA). PCNA is approved as a provider of nurse practitioner continuing education (CE) programs by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), provider number 030602. 

 

Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association
General Hour: 1.00
Total Hour: 1.00
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