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2025 Virtual Symposium: Optimizing Practice For the Consulting Dietitian

DHCC 2025 Virtual Symposium: Optimizing Practice For the Consulting Dietitian

2025 Virtual Symposium: Optimizing Practice For the Consulting Dietitian

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Membership Type Pricing
Member $80.00
Non-Member $125.00
DPG31 Dietetics in Health Care Communities (DHCC) - Member $40.00
DPG31 Dietetics in Health Care Communities (DHCC) - Retired $40.00
DPG31 Dietetics in Health Care Communities (DHCC) - Student $40.00

The 2025 Virtual Symposium included six sessions:

  • Overview of RDN Responsibilities in a PALTC Setting
  • Using the NCP to Enhance Practice in PALTC
  • Mastering Communication: Avoiding Common Pitfalls
  • Rethinking the "renal Diet" in Healthcare Facilities
  • Cardioprotective Medications for Type 2 Diabetes
  • Prioritizing Cognitive Well-being: Patient Experience, Nutrition, and Dining Environments

Product Publish Details

Release Date: July 30, 2025

SKU: WEBDHCC2025VSYMP0725

CPEU: 5.00 (Valid Until December 10, 2027)

Learning Objectives

Overview of RDN Responsibilities in a PALTC Setting

  • Implement best practices of nutrition care in the PALTC setting.
  • Maximize quality nutrition care and reimbursement within the PALTC setting.

Using the NCP to Enhance Practice in PALTC

  • Define the steps of the NCP inclusive of performance of nutrition screening, assessment, diagnosis, intervention & monitoring/evaluation.
  • Identify how malnutrition screening, diagnosis, and interventions fit within the NCP.
  • Apply the NCP to enhance practice in PALTC.

Mastering Communication: Avoiding Common Pitfalls

  • List important concepts of effective communication.
  • Identify potential barriers to effective communication in your workplace.
  • Formulate one take-home strategy to improve your communication process.

Rethinking the "Renal Diet" in Healthcare Facilities

  • State the changes to the 2020 KDOQI guidelines for nutritional management in CKD.
  • Define the benefits of incorporating more plant foods for people with CKD.
  • List suggested changes to make healthcare menus more compliant with the updated KDOQI guidelines.

Cardioprotective Medications for Type 2 Diabetes

  • Identify which GLP1 RA drugs have been shown to reduce risk for MACE Explain the HF benefit of SGLT2i medications.
  • List the common side effects of both GLP1 RA and SGLT2i medications.

Prioritizing Cognitive Well-being: Patient Experience, Nutrition & Dining Environments

  • Define the impact of patient experience on cognitive wellbeing in older adults.
  • Learn how to prioritize cognitive health in dining experiences to promote nutritional outcomes.
  • Demonstrate how to create welcoming, comfortable spaces to support and promote wellness for residents in PA-LTC.

Performance Indicators

Overview of RDN Responsibilities in a PALTC Setting

  • 5.2.1
  • 5.2.8
  • 8.4.1
  • 8.4.7

Using the NCP to Enhance Practice in PALTC

  • 11.2.6
  • 11.3.3
  • 11.3.9

Mastering Communication: Avoiding Common Pitfalls

  • 3.1.1
  • 3.1.2
  • 3.1.3
  • 3.4.5
  • 1.2.6 (Ethics)

Rethinking the "Renal Diet" in Healthcare Facilities

  • : 8.4.6
  • 11.2.14
  • 11.3.4

Cardioprotective Medications for Type 2 Diabetes

  • 9.1.5
  • 11.4.6
  • 11.4.7

Prioritizing Cognitive Well-being: Patient Experience, Nutrition & Dining Environments

  • 9.1.2
  • 9.2.2
  • 9.3.4

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Libby Johnson, MBA, RDN, LD

Speaker: Overview of RDN Responsibilities in a PALTC Setting

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Rena Zelig, DCN, RDN, CDCES, CSG

Speaker: Using the NCP to Enhance Practice in PALTC

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Donna Belcher, EdD, MS, RD, LDN, CDCES, CNSC, FAND

Speaker: Mastering Communication: Avoiding Common Pitfalls

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Melanie Betz, MS, RD, CSR, LDN, FAND

Speaker: Rethinking the "Renal Diet" in Healthcare Facilities

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Mary Finckenor, MA, RDN, CDCES, BC-ADM, CSSD, CCRP

Speaker: Cardioprotective Medications for Type 2 Diabetes

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Gila Singer, MS, RDN, CSG, CDN, FAND

Speaker: Prioritizing Cognitive Well-being: Patient Experience, Nutrition & Dining Environments

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