Nutrition Continuing Education
WIC Program Training Information and Resources for Local Agencies
- Seminars/Workshops/Conferences/Webinars
- Interactive/Teleseminars
- Self-Study Courses (Web, Audio, Book)
Seminars/Workshops/Conferences/Webinars
- Molly Kellogg’s Counseling Intensive for Nutrition Professionals, 6/7/13 – 6/8/13.
Interactive Teleseminars
None currently available.
Self-Study Courses (Web, Audio, Book)
The following courses are listed on the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) website as eligible for Continuing Education credits for Registered Dietitians and Diet Technicians, Registered. MDH has not evaluated the content of these courses. Local agencies should evaluate the appropriateness of course content before registering for a course. Nurses are responsible for determining whether an activity meets the requirements for acceptable continuing education.
Counseling
- The Foundation Series. Recorded webinars offered by Molly Kellogg. Enroll in the series of 5 classes or choose individual classes. Topics include: Dealing with Resistance; Open Questioning; Affirming; Reflecting; and Summarizing.
- The Power of Language Series. Recorded webinars offered by Molly Kellogg. Enroll in the series of 2 classes or choose individual classes. Topics include: Watch Your Language: How You Say It Matters and Change Talk: Help Your Clients Talk Themselves into New Behaviors.
- The Scaling Series. Recorded webinars offered by Molly Kellogg. Enroll in the series of 2 classes or choose individual classes. Topics include: Importance: Working with what matters to your client and Confidence to Change: Exploring obstacles and problem-solving.
- The Practical Series. Recorded webinars offered by Molly Kellogg. Enroll in the series of 3 classes or choose individual classes. Topics include: Effective ways to provide nutrition education; When you have very little time; How to get clients to return for follow up visits.
- Molly Kellogg’s Counseling Intensive Home Study Course. Gain skills for your counseling toolbox.
- Motivational Interviewing: Helping Patients Change Behavior. Skelly Publishing. Learn to use Motivational Interviewing to help your clients change behavior.
Self-Study Courses (Web, Audio, Book)
The following courses are listed on the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) website as eligible for Continuing Education credits for Registered Dietitians and Diet Technicians, Registered. MDH has not evaluated the content of these courses. Local agencies should evaluate the appropriateness of course content before registering for a course. Nurses are responsible for determining whether an activity meets the requirements for acceptable continuing education.
Pediatric Nutrition and Feeding
- Introduction of Solid Foods. CE Nurse. The goal of this program is to update dietitians’ knowledge of basic nutrition and solid food introduction for the well child.
- Nutrition for Infants and Young Children. Wolf Rinke. Assess common feeding problems and describe solutions. Evaluate nutritional status of infants and young children.
- Picky Eaters. CE Nurse. Lists developmental causes of picky eating. Discusses realistic solutions to toddlers’ picky eating.
- Feeding the Kids.Continuing Education 360. Guide to feeding kids and for discovering healthy foods a family will love. Makes eating healthier food simple, quick and delicious.
- Food Fights. Continuing Education 360. The authors bring together the science of nutrition with the practical insight of parents, offering simple solutions for daily nutritional challenges.
- An Integrative Approach to Childhood Obesity. Cornell University. Discusses serious health consequences associated with the childhood obesity epidemic, demonstrates that conventional treatments show poor results, and presents an integrative approach to childhood obesity that involves diet, physical activity and parenting.
- Obesity in Young Children. CE Nurse. The goal of this program is to update dietitians’ knowledge of basic nutrition and fitness for the well child.
- Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents. Care2learn. This course discusses the causes and prevalence of obesity in our society, as well as the risk factors associated with obesity in children. The student will become acquainted with the proper obesity assessment and classification methods and explore the benefits and risks of noninvasive weight loss therapy.
- Preventing Childhood Obesity. Continuing Education. Sedentary children become obese, but healthy habits can be learned early in life with systematic attention to diet and activity routines offered by parents, day-care providers, preschool administrators, and teachers. The author provides practical, proven age-appropriate diet, nutrition and exercise/activity strategies for youngsters.
- Childhood and Adolescent Nutrition. Continuing Education. Covers nutrition from weaning through adolescence. Topics include: growth, development, weight control, food sensitivities, exercise, eating problems, pre-teen dieting, supplementation, hyperactivity, allergies, and much more.
- Your Child’s Weight: Helping Without Harming. Continuing Education 360. This book emphasizes supporting normal growth and development—feeding well, parenting well, and letting children grow up to get bodies that are right for them.
- Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense Continuing Education Program. Ellyn Satter. This paper and pencil program is designed to increase mastery of Ellyn Satter’s feeding dynamics principles.
- Ellyn Satter Webcasts. Ellyn Satter. Webcasts include: What is eating competence?, Helping low-income (and other families) develop the meal habit, and Working with poor food acceptance and poor food regulation.
Self-Study Courses (Web, Audio, Book)
The following courses are listed on the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) website as eligible for Continuing Education credits for Registered Dietitians and Diet Technicians, Registered. MDH has not evaluated the content of these courses. Local agencies should evaluate the appropriateness of course content before registering for a course. Nurses are responsible for determining whether an activity meets the requirements for acceptable continuing education.
Maternal Nutrition
- Nutrition for Pregnancy and Lactation. Wolf Rinke. Utilize a five part nutritional assessment process plan. Learn effective nutritional intervention strategies. Recognize the physiological changes in pregnancy and how they affect nutritional needs and feeding strategies.
- Weight Gain during Pregnancy: Reexamining the Guidelines.Cornell University. Describes the review process and underlying science that the recent Institute of Medicine committee went through to update the recommendations for weight gain during pregnancy.
- Maternal and Infant Nutrition. Continuing Education. This comprehensive course updates information on all aspects of nutrition from birth through weaning. Special attention is given to breastfeeding, lactation problems, nutritional needs of infants and breastfeeding mothers, bottle feeding, formulas, introducing solid foods and weaning.
- Nutrition for Women Part I: Sexual and Reproductive Health.Continuing Education. This new edition includes important revised recommendations for pregnancy weight gain from the Institute of Medicine and the American Diabetes Assn. Updated topics include: Vitamin D and PMS, oral contraceptives; adolescent pregnancies; online tools and resources; epigenics and pregnancy; gestational and pregestational diabetes.
- Nutrition for Women Part II: Diet and Diseases of Lifestyle. Continuing Education. Stresses prevention of chronic disease and provides practical information on evaluating diets and developing healthy eating skills. Chapters include weight management, the immune system, antioxidants, heart disease and breast cancer prevention, osteoporosis and menopause.
Self-Study Courses (Web, Audio, Book)
The following courses are listed on the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) website as eligible for Continuing Education credits for Registered Dietitians and Diet Technicians, Registered. MDH has not evaluated the content of these courses. Local agencies should evaluate the appropriateness of course content before registering for a course. Nurses are responsible for determining whether an activity meets the requirements for acceptable continuing education.
General Nutrition
- Family Food Decision Making. Cornell University. Discusses family food decision-making, a complex process that involves interaction among family members within the context of the greater community. Understanding this process can help community practitioners engage with families and identify points where it may be possible for them to make changes in what they eat.
