Nutrition & Health Currents: Utilizing the Multidisciplinary Team to Optimize Nutrition Care in Patients with Cancer
Course Description:
In this article, you’ll identify challenges to providing optimal nutrition care to oncology patients; describe the importance of early nutrition intervention and how it can benefit the oncology patient; define the role and responsibility of registered dietitian nutritionists on the multidisciplinary care team; and identify ways to expand oncology nutrition programs through a multidisciplinary team approach.Course Objectives:
- Identify challenges to providing optimal nutrition care to oncology patients.
- Describe the importance of early nutrition intervention and how it can benefit the oncology patient.
- Define the role and responsibility of registered dietitian nutritionists on the multidisciplinary care team.
- Identify ways to expand oncology nutrition programs through a multidisciplinary team approach.
- CDR Level: 1
- Performance Indicators: 4.2.7, 3.2.2, 8.3.5
- Run Time: 60
Course Instructor Bio(s)
Rhone M. Levin, MEd, RDN, CSO, LD, FAND
Board Certified Oncology Dietitian
Duke University Hospital
Durham, NC, USA
Liz LeFevre, MHS, RD, CSO, LD
Registered Dietitian
St Luke’s Cancer Institute: Meridian
Meridian, ID, USA
Jeannine Mills, MS, RDN, CSO, LD
Certified Specialist in Oncology Nutrition
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Lebanon, NH, USA
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