CE credit available for dietitians, nurses, pharmacists and physicians

Total Credit Hours: 1.5

Start Date: November 1, 2014

Expiration Date (all CE credit must be claimed by the expiration date): November 30, 2014

Lecture of the Month CE Activity Overall Goal:

This CE activity serves to promote the process of life-long learning for physicians, dietitians, pharmacists, and nurses who specialize in the sciences of clinical nutrition and metabolism.

Goal and Target Audience:

This educational activity is directed toward clinical nutrition and metabolism professionals and others who wish to update their knowledge of clinical nutrition and metabolism. By participating in this educational activity, the reader may expect to:

Acquire knowledge in the area of clinical nutrition and metabolism research
Update or confirm your understanding of appropriate clinical nutrition and metabolism practices.
Identify further learning needs as they relate to the subject matter.

Learning Objectives:

Assess quality of life in home parenteral nutrition dependent adults
Identify related costs of complex care to clinical outcomes and quality of life in families managing home parenteral nutrition
Compare health related quality of life after pediatric intestinal transplantation to healthy normal and home parenteral nutrition patients

Speaker Credentials and Affiliations:

Janet Baxter, RD, PhD
Specialist Dietitian
Kingscross Health & Community Care Centre
Dundee, United Kingdom

Khiet Ngo, DO, MS
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics & Clinical Skills
Loma Linda university Children’s Hospital

Carol Smith, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor, School of Nursing and School of Preventive Medicine & Public Health
University of Kansas Medical Center

Marion Winkler, PhD, RD, LDN, CNSC, FASPEN
Surgical Nutrition Specialist
Department of Surgery and Nutritional Support Service
Rhode Island Hospital
Providence, RI

Requirements for Successful Completion:
To obtain CE credit for this activity, attendees must listen to the education recording, complete an online knowledge assessment for each education recording and achieve a score of 100%, and complete an online activity evaluation. All CE credit must be claimed prior to the expiration date.

Accreditation Statements/Continuing Education Credit:

Nurses

A.S.P.E.N. is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

A.S.P.E.N. is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider CEP 3970, for 1.5 contact hours per lecture in the lecture of the month series.

Pharmacists

A.S.P.E.N. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

ACPE UAN: 0216-0000-14-063-H04-P

Knowledge activity.

Dietitians

A.S.P.E.N., Provider Number AM005, is a Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Accredited Provider with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR). CDR level 2. Dietitians may post comments on this program on www.cdrnet.org.

Physicians Provider 0002345

A.S.P.E.N. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

A.S.P.E.N. designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ^TM per lecture. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Policies/Information:

Non-Commercialism: A.S.P.E.N. subscribes to the ACCME Standards for Commercial Support. A.S.P.E.N. does not provide programs that constitute advertisement or include promotional materials. A.S.P.E.N. does not endorse any products.

Computer Requirements and Technical Support: Participants will need a computer with internet connection and it is recommended that end users' devices satisfy the following requirements:

OS: Windows, Mac
Browser: Internet Explorer 7 or higher, Firefox, Chrome, Safari
Javascript & Cookies enabled
Adobe Flash Player 9.124.0 or higher
Recommended RAM: 512MB+

Mobile support

Apple iPad/iPhone running HTML5
Android Device running Flash

For technical difficulties please contact Digitell Inc. Customer Support at: 1-800-679-3646

Office hours are between 9AM to 5PM ET, Monday through Friday

Privacy and Confidentiality: A.S.P.E.N. respects the privacy of its members and website visitors. Companies that receive personal information from A.S.P.E.N. in order to execute the business of A.S.P.E.N. may use personal information only for that purpose.

Refund Policy: Refunds are not available.

Grievances: Grievances must be submitted in writing to Director of Education at A.S.P.E.N. 8630 Fenton Street. Suite 412. Silver Spring, MD 20910.

Commercial Support and Sponsorship:

No commercial support or sponsorship has been received for this enduring continuing education activity.

Commercial Relationships Disclosures and Conflicts of Interest (COI) of Faculty

No Commercial Relationships

Janet Baxter RD, PhD

Kingscross Health & Community Care Centre

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